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Afraid of the Dark · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 1 OF 82
Groove AJ -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Afraid of the Dark on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
222 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, ride through bars 29-32 and kick and crashes through bars 33-36, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    123
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Afraid of the Dark -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- AJ, U -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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