ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fear Of The Dark on drums

318 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 14:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 86 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 318
LENGTH: 14:44
DIFFICULTY: 67/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9, silence through bars 10-29, snare through bars 30-45, ride through bars 46-67, toms through bars 68-69 and ride through bars 70-93, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 158-172, 190-200 and 206-216, and 2 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    190                              191
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---------------x-------|----x-------x-------------------|

Fear Of The Dark -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 53, 68, 69, 77, 85, 125 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- Q, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part I and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part F and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part M and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
Through Part E and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Fear Of The Dark?

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 Fear Of The Dark hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

318 bars, about 14:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 53, 68, 69, 77, 85, 125 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 318 BARS ANALYSED