To Her Darkness · In Solitude

191 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 6:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
6:07
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
TO HER DARKNESS · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 51 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 19 sections: 102 keep time, 57 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART F
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AI
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMFICAM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To Her Darkness?

125 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 To Her Darkness hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 6:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 To Her Darkness?

28 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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