The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway · Genesis

148 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 130-148 -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY · BAR 131
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 25, 37, 48, 49, 53, 61 and 12 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 14 sections: 72 keep time, 18 are fills, 12 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-148.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
PART S8
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGALS1S8R+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway?

150 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 The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 25, 37, 48, 49, 53, 61 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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