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Vanishing · Lamb Of God

EXERCISE 10 OF 67
2-bar fill at bar 15 and 1 more
61 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART K
PART S9
PART AB
PART AE
PART S12
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCKGS12AB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vanishing on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
85/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-19, snare through bars 20-24, hi-hat through bars 25-35 and snare through bars 36-43, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 16 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------X-------X-------X-------|
SD |----------------X---------------|
BD |x-----------x-x---x---------x---|
Vanishing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 24, 28, 29 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- C, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vanishing?

123 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 Vanishing hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 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 Vanishing?

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 24, 28, 29 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED