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The Faded Line · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 5 OF 45
Groove B
98 / 209 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, PART Q
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART Q
PART S17
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAJCS17S+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Faded Line on drums

209 bars at 183 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-36, toms through bars 37-40, ride through bars 41-44, toms through bars 45-49 and silence through bars 50-52, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 2 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---X---X---X---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxx--------|
The Faded Line -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 24, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, X -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part S3 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-64 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-106 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Faded Line?

183 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 The Faded Line hard to play on drums?

59 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 The Faded Line?

2 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 24, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED