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Seven Steps Of Darkness · Composers of MSB

EXERCISE 4 OF 40
Groove H -- Part H
153 / 275 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART H
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART H
PART I
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDBAIH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Seven Steps Of Darkness on drums

275 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 5:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
275
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-182, toms through bars 183-184, hi-hat through bars 185-242, ride through bars 243-258 and hi-hat through bars 259-275.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 30 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 60, 64, 183 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 92-154 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Seven Steps Of Darkness?

194 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 Seven Steps Of Darkness hard to play on drums?

57 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

275 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Seven Steps Of Darkness?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 60, 64, 183 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 275 BARS ANALYSED