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Embers · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 5 OF 57
Groove C -- Part C
85 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART A
PART C
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEIQCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Embers on drums

190 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-31, snare through bars 32-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, toms through bars 49-52, snare through bars 53-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-70, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 38 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-x-x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
Embers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 16, 32, 39, 40, 42, 44 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-37 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-53 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-110 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Embers?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Embers hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Embers?

14 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 16, 32, 39, 40, 42, 44 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED