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Fear Of The Dark Eb · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 26 OF 34
Join Part F to Part G (bars 171-173)
219 / 224 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART G
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFBGH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fear Of The Dark Eb on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
11:12
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, ride through bars 34-97, hi-hat through bars 98-105, ride through bars 106-121 and hi-hat through bars 122-177, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34               35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------------x-|
RD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-------|x-------x-----x-|
Fear Of The Dark Eb -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 125, 141, 145, 149, 153, 161 and 5 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-37 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 34-123 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 101-129 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Bars 130-172 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 169-214 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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