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For Your Malice · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 27 OF 39
Join Chorus 2 to Part O (bars 86-88)
160 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART O
PART S1
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGQDIO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play For Your Malice on drums

161 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-72 and snare through bars 73-80, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 129-160 -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 48, 56, 64 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-76 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 84-107 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is For Your Malice?

165 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 For Your Malice hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 For Your Malice?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 48, 56, 64 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED