Darkness Of The Forest · Brain Drain

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Punk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81-86, 88-93 and 109-111, and 3 more places -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
DARKNESS OF THE FOREST · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 29, 53, 62, 70, 78 and 6 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 11 sections: 106 keep time, 12 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-20.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEMBOR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darkness Of The Forest?

100 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 Darkness Of The Forest hard to play on drums?

50 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 The Forest?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 29, 53, 62, 70, 78 and 6 more.

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