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Reign Of Darkness · Thy Art Is Murder

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART N
PART R
PART V
PART S11
PART AB
OUTRO
11 groovesERS1ABN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reign Of Darkness on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-41, toms through bars 42-45, hi-hat through bars 46-49 and snare through bars 50-53, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-27, 30-31 and 34-35, and 2 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26                                                               27
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x-----------------------x---x-----------|x---x-----------x---x-----------x---x---x---x---x---x-----------|
Reign Of Darkness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 25, 42, 43, 49, 54, 55 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R, I (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Reign 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 Reign Of Darkness hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Reign Of Darkness?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 25, 42, 43, 49, 54, 55 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED