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In Darkness · Lorna Shore

EXERCISE 2 OF 88
Groove B -- Chorus 2
12 / 168 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART AV
PART AX
PART P
17 groovesBAXGPQ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 5
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Darkness on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
87/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-11, snare through bars 12-19, ride through bars 20-21, toms through bars 22-23 and snare through bars 24-36, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 102 and 121-122, and 5 more places -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
In Darkness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 54 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- U -- 1 exercise, about 8 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Break 3 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In Darkness?

120 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 In Darkness hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 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 In Darkness?

23 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED