Ditch · Lamb Of God

134 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

134

LENGTH

3:34

DIFFICULTY

70/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-19, hi-hat through bars 20-23, snare through bars 24-54, hi-hat through bars 55-58 and snare through bars 59-80, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-32, 34-35 and 65-67, and 8 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30                               31
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |xx------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x-----------x---|
BD |xxx-x---x---x-------x-------x---|----x---x---x-------x---x-------|

18 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 9, 15, 19 and 23 more.

It cuts the song into 54 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Bars 10-16 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Bars 12-20 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Bars 18-24 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
9. and 8 more sittings after that.