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Nightmare Seeker · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 18 OF 70
Groove J -- Part J
79 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART J
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART G
PART J
PART L
PART G
PART V
PART N
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDGLNB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nightmare Seeker on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
83/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, snare through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-47, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-33, 60-67 and 102-109 -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26                               27
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x--xx---x---|x---x---x---x--xx---x---x---x---|
HH |----------o-------o-------------|----------o---------------------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |--x---x---x---x-x-x---xxx-x-x-x-|--x---x---x---xxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Nightmare Seeker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 25, 35, 40 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-21 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-56 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 34-98 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nightmare Seeker?

113 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 Nightmare Seeker hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Nightmare Seeker?

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 25, 35, 40 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED