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Pathetic · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove G -- Part G
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PART G
PART M
PART G
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pathetic on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
211 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-15, ride through bars 16-22, snare through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-40, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- G, O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-198 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-17 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-50 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-90 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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