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lamb of balkan · Carnal

EXERCISE 6 OF 63
Fill at bar 132 and 144 (a small one)
58 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
PART H
PART F
CHORUS
PART S
PART U
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesNXHABA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play lamb of balkan on drums

146 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 2:33 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
87/100

ride through bars 1-40, hi-hat through bars 41-50, ride through bars 51-81, kick and crashes through bars 82-83, silence through bars 84-86 and snare through bars 87-94, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-53, 55-61 and 63-65, and 3 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
lamb of balkan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X, AB -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-133 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is lamb of balkan?

200 BPM, in 3/4, 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 lamb of balkan 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 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 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 lamb of balkan?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED