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Set To Fail · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 2 OF 47
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
19 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDNIGQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Set To Fail on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-65, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 37-39 and 61-63, and 2 more places -- 18.6% 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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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Set To Fail -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 31, 48, 55, 72, 87 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Set To Fail?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Set To Fail hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Set To Fail?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 31, 48, 55, 72, 87 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED