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One Gun · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 22 OF 43
Run A4 · Chorus 2 (bars 73-108)
135 / 197 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesACNKP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Gun on drums

197 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-40, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 25-39, and 8 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    41
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
One Gun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 40, 48, 56, 72, 88 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-109 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-118 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is One Gun?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is One Gun hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 One Gun?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 40, 48, 56, 72, 88 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED