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King Me · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 18 OF 48
Groove O
92 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART C
PART G
PART N
PART T
PART N
PART T
CHORUS
PART C
PART T
OUTRO
12 groovesZTCGN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play King Me on drums

175 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 6:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-41, silence through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-46, silence through bars 47-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-59, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 13-15 and 18-19, and 13 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----------------------------|
King Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- C, T -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-51 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-73 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is King Me?

114 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 King Me hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 King Me?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED