The Gallows · Black Label Society

151 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-47, 49-54 and 89-95, and 4 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 158 BPM
THE GALLOWS · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 70, 71, 72 and 7 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 70-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 9 sections: 98 keep time, 13 are fills, 6 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-119.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGMS1CP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Gallows?

158 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 Gallows hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Gallows?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 70, 71, 72 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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