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New Faces In The Dark · Loathe

EXERCISE 9 OF 58
Join Part B to Part F (bars 17-19)
21 / 127 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART M
PART AB
PART AL
PART AS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesS9MABASB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Faces In The Dark on drums

127 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

64 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
127
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-16, ride through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-32 and toms through bars 33-36, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-14 -- 5.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x--x--x--x--x-x-|x--x--x--x------|
HH |-xx-xx-xx-xx-x-x|-xx-xx-xx-xxxxxx|
HF |x---------------|----------------|
New Faces In The Dark -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO, AJ (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part AB and Part AL -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is New Faces In The Dark?

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 hard to play on drums?

64 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

13 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED