For Evil Lurks in the Dark · Carrion Feeder

175 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:10
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 31-38, 55-62 and 89-96, and 1 more place -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
FOR EVIL LURKS IN THE DARK · BARS 31-32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 37 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 6-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 77-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 25 sections: 94 keep time, 44 are fills, 17 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-30.

PART S3
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART Q
PART N
CHORUS 4
12 groovesLNQWS3+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For Evil Lurks in the Dark?

130 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 For Evil Lurks in the Dark hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 For Evil Lurks in the Dark?

12 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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