Remorse Is For The Dead · Lamb Of God

268 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
268
LENGTH
8:30
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 71, 111 and 142-144, and 30 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
REMORSE IS FOR THE DEAD · BAR 161
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 69 and 43 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 69-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 72-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 77-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

268 bars across 21 sections: 140 keep time, 49 are fills, 39 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-104.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART K
CHORUS
PART AN
PART N
OUTRO
18 groovesAIDNANY+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Remorse Is For The Dead?

120 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 Remorse Is For The Dead hard to play on drums?

47 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

268 bars, about 8:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 20 sittings, about 29 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 Remorse Is For The Dead?

16 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 69 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 268 BARS ANALYSED
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