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Kid of Darkness · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 17 OF 66
Groove R -- Part R
51 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
PART S8
CHORUS 2
PART AL
PART AQ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesDBFAQS8S1+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kid of Darkness on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-45, hi-hat through bars 46-47, snare through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-53, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 2 more places -- 10.3% 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 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 28, 53, 57, 66, 67 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-45 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 50-70 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kid of Darkness?

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 hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

153 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Kid of Darkness?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 28, 53, 57, 66, 67 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED