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The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway · Genesis

EXERCISE 15 OF 61
Groove J
64 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-46, snare through bars 47-49, ride through bars 50-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-71, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    131
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------x-----------------|
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- AL -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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