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In Your Words · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 9 OF 63
Groove F -- Part F
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0 / 63 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
PART L
PART F
PART L
PART F
PART V
CHORUS
PART AF
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 3
10 groovesXFAFLD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Your Words on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
91/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-23, toms through bars 24-32, snare through bars 33-34 and ride through bars 35-38, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-91, 93-94 and 97-99, and 4 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    91
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|
In Your Words -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 35 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- X -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In Your Words?

112 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 Your Words hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 In Your Words?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 35 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED