Afraid of the Dark · Motionless In White

239 bars at 222 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
222 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 123-129, 131-137 and 208-214, and 1 more place -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 222 BPM
AFRAID OF THE DARK · BAR 123
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 42 more.

LOOP · 222 BPM
BARS 16-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 17 TIMES
LOOP · 222 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 222 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 222 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

239 bars across 21 sections: 97 keep time, 48 are fills, 35 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-68.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART M
PART S
PART M
PART AG
CHORUS
PART S19
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
19 groovesAJMS2SAE+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Afraid of the Dark?

222 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 Afraid of the Dark hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 29 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 Afraid of the Dark?

16 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED
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