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New Faces in the Dark 2 · Loathe

EXERCISE 9 OF 68
Join Part C to Part F (bars 20-22)
34 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART F
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART F
PART I
PART N
PART U
PART AC
PART S
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS11SS10S1N+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Faces in the Dark 2 on drums

132 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-27, toms through bars 28-29, snare through bars 30-32, toms through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54, 58 and 62-68, and 1 more place -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------------x---|
HH |o---o-----------|
SD |--------x-------|
FT |--------x-------|
BD |----x-------x---|
New Faces in the Dark 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 21, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30 and 26 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 -- Z, AA -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-26 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 24-35 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is New Faces in the Dark 2?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is New Faces in the Dark 2 hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 New Faces in the Dark 2?

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 21, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED