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Light and Darkness · Babymetal

EXERCISE 3 OF 51
Groove P -- Part P
38 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Light and Darkness on drums

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

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-18, snare through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-41, snare through bars 42-50, hi-hat through bars 51-83 and silence through bars 84-86, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Light and Darkness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B, N -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 15-27 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-36 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-70 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-96 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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