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KID OF DARKNESS (correct) · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART P
PART S9
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART AI
PART AV
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesEAIAPH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play KID OF DARKNESS (correct) on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-10, hi-hat through bars 11-17, snare through bars 18-41, silence through bars 42-43 and snare through bars 44-59, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 2 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x---------x-----x-------x-x-|
KID OF DARKNESS (correct) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 47, 51, 55 and 18 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, P -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-48 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-52 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is KID OF DARKNESS (correct)?

140 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 KID OF DARKNESS (correct) hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 KID OF DARKNESS (correct)?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 47, 51, 55 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED