Fading Light (first half) · Another Day Ruined

25 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 1:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / HardcoreUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
25
LENGTH
1:07
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20 and 22-24 -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
FADING LIGHT (FIRST HALF) · BARS 18-19
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 3, 5, 19, 21, 23 and 25.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

25 bars across 4 sections: 14 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-12.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDJBIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fading Light (first half)?

86 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 Fading Light (first half) hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

25 bars, about 1:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Fading Light (first half)?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 3, 5, 19, 21, 23 and 25.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 25 BARS ANALYSED
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