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In My Darkest Hour · Megadeth

EXERCISE 8 OF 44
3-bar fill at bar 4 and 3 more
134 / 219 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, PART S11, OUTRO
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART W
PART Y
PART S11
OUTRO
12 groovesGTS2WY+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In My Darkest Hour on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
8:03
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 3-4, toms through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-8, toms through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-17 and toms through bars 18-22, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    110
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |---x--------x--x-----x--|
In My Darkest Hour -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- T, G -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-79 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 97-112 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part T and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part W -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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