Pathetic · Lamb Of God

229 bars at 211 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
211 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 25-27, and 7 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 211 BPM
PATHETIC · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 16, 40, 48, 56, 73 and 13 more.

LOOP · 211 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 211 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 211 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 211 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 24 sections: 158 keep time, 19 are fills, 19 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 196-211.

PART G
PART M
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
15 groovesOGMKA+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pathetic?

211 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Pathetic hard to play on drums?

60 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 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Pathetic?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 16, 40, 48, 56, 73 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED
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