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Darkness Of The Forest · Brain Drain

EXERCISE 7 OF 50
Groove C
83 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART I
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEMBOR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darkness Of The Forest on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
50/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-41, ride through bars 42-46, hi-hat through bars 47-52, ride through bars 53-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-80, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    81
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-xx|
SD |x-----x---xx|
BD |x-----------|
Darkness Of The Forest -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- M, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-81 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-95 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED