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To Her Darkness · In Solitude

To Her Darkness · In Solitude
EXERCISE 13 OF 106
Join Part A to Part C (bars 8-10)
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0 / 106 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART C
PART A
PART C
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To Her Darkness on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
6:07
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-15, hi-hat through bars 16-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28 and ride through bars 29-53, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- C, M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-33 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-51 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-79 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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