In Defense Of Our Good Name · Lamb Of God

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / HardcoreUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3 and 87-89 -- 6.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
IN DEFENSE OF OUR GOOD NAME · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 22 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 9-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 40-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 12 sections: 44 keep time, 28 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-67.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART T
PART AA
PART S7
PART AJ
PART AO
PART BC
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAOCAAAT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In Defense Of Our Good Name?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is In Defense Of Our Good Name hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in In Defense Of Our Good Name?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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