Light and Darkness · Babymetal

125 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-18 and 87-93 -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
LIGHT AND DARKNESS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 30, 34, 42, 49, 66 and 5 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 16 sections: 95 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-18.

CHORUS
PART C
PART E
PART H
PART K
PART N
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART H
PART E
OUTRO
12 groovesBNPEH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Light and Darkness?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Light and Darkness hard to play on drums?

45 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Light and Darkness?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 30, 34, 42, 49, 66 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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