Footsteps In The Dark · Isley Brothers

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 5:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-18, 28-42 and 52-74, and 2 more places -- 71.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 81 BPM
FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 43, 75 and 99.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 7 sections: 92 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-74.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Footsteps In The Dark?

81 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 Footsteps In The Dark hard to play on drums?

52 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Footsteps In The Dark?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 43, 75 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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