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Purified · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 7 OF 79
Run S21 · Part S2 (bars 3-5)
42 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
CHORUS
PART V
PART Q
PART AJ
PART AM
PART AV
PART AX
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesGQAVAXAJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Purified on drums

151 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
86/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-34, snare through bars 35-41, hi-hat through bars 42-82 and ride through bars 83-90, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 115-129 -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    115
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Purified -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 14, 20, 34 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- AX -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AV -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Purified?

185 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 Purified hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 28 sittings, about 22 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 Purified?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 14, 20, 34 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED