In My Darkest Hour · Megadeth

219 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 8:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
8:03
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 109-115, 117-123 and 125-131, and 4 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
IN MY DARKEST HOUR · BAR 110
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 13 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 58-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 13 sections: 163 keep time, 19 are fills, 23 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-172.

PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART W
PART Y
12 groovesGTS2WY+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In My Darkest Hour?

110 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 My Darkest Hour hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 8:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 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 My Darkest Hour?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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