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A Mansion In Darkness · King Diamond

EXERCISE 4 OF 75
Groove O -- Chorus
29 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT
PART S2
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART AB
PART J
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesOIALAOJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Mansion In Darkness on drums

155 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, ride through bars 29-37, hi-hat through bars 38-53 and ride through bars 54-66, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 16 and 18-19, and 14 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--xx-x-x--|
A Mansion In Darkness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Mansion In Darkness?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 A Mansion In Darkness hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 A Mansion In Darkness?

17 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED