Fear Of The Dark · Iron Maiden

248 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 12:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
12:24
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 28 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
FEAR OF THE DARK · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 149, 153, 157, 161, 169, 177 and 6 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 149 · LANDS ON BAR 150 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 177 · LANDS ON BAR 178
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 217 · LANDS ON BAR 218
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 223 · LANDS ON BAR 224 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

248 bars across 13 sections: 195 keep time, 12 are fills and 23 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-37.

PART B
PART G
PART D
CHORUS
PART T
PART U
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesPBUCG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fear Of The Dark?

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 hard to play on drums?

56 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 12:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 149, 153, 157, 161, 169, 177 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED
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