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The Gallows · Black Label Society

EXERCISE 14 OF 44
Fill at bar 48, 96 and 144 (a small one)
102 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Gallows on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-24, toms through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-55, toms through bars 56-71, snare through bars 72-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-86, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41               42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|------x---------|
The Gallows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-105 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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