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Darkness Of Ignorance · Abhinanda

EXERCISE 4 OF 40
Groove A
29 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJHBDR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darkness Of Ignorance on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, 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
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
85/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29 and 35-41 -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Darkness Of Ignorance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 22 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-19 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-31 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-50 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Darkness Of Ignorance?

85 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 Darkness Of Ignorance 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 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Darkness Of Ignorance?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 22 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED