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For Evil Lurks in the Dark · Carrion Feeder

For Evil Lurks in the Dark · Carrion Feeder
EXERCISE 16 OF 65
Groove P -- Part P
96 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART S3
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART P
PART Q
PART N
CHORUS 4
12 groovesLNQWS3+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play For Evil Lurks in the Dark on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-18, hi-hat through bars 19-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54 and ride through bars 55-62, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31               32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|x---x---x---x---|
For Evil Lurks in the Dark -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-34 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part P and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-101 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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