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Omerta · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 20 OF 48
Groove N -- Part N
105 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAVEPR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Omerta on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60, snare through bars 61-78, hi-hat through bars 79-80 and silence through bars 81-82, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 3 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |xxx-x-x-xxx-x-x-|
Omerta -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-38 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-45 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 83-96 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Omerta?

119 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Omerta hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 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 Omerta?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED