Fixation On The Darkness · Killswitch Engage

124 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-41, 43-45 and 47-49, and 5 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
FIXATION ON THE DARKNESS · BARS 39-40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 42, 46, 50, 55, 56, 70 and 2 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 15 sections: 87 keep time, 8 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-106.

PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
PART X
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesLIDAJG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fixation On The Darkness?

134 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 Fixation On The Darkness hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fixation On The Darkness?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 42, 46, 50, 55, 56, 70 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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