Fear Of The Dark Eb · Iron Maiden

224 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 11:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
11:12
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-40, 42-48 and 50-97, and 5 more places -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 80 BPM
FEAR OF THE DARK EB · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 125, 141, 145, 149, 153, 161 and 5 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 125 · LANDS ON BAR 126 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 161 · LANDS ON BAR 162 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 212-213 · LANDS ON BAR 214 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 12 sections: 190 keep time, 11 are fills, 8 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-96.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFBGH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fear Of The Dark Eb?

80 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 Fear Of The Dark Eb hard to play on drums?

45 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 11:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Fear Of The Dark Eb?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 125, 141, 145, 149, 153, 161 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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