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The Darkness drum tabs

3 charts, 95-132 BPM. Each one is read from a real score: play it along to the record, slow it down, or take the practice course under it.

CHARTS
3
TEMPO
95-132 BPM
BARS IN ALL
237
WITH A COURSE
2 of 3
USUAL KEY
A major
arena rockbritishclassic rockglam

EVERY THE DARKNESS CHART

LEARNING THE DARKNESS ON DRUMS

3 The Darkness drum parts are transcribed here, 237 bars of music in total, filed under arena rock, british, classic rock and glam. Every one of them is a chart read from a real score rather than a tab somebody typed out: the notes are where the score put them, the tempo is the record’s own, and the page plays the recording underneath while you read.

Nothing here asks you to play it at full speed on the first pass. Take any chart down to half tempo, loop the four bars that will not come clean, and bring it back up. 2 of these 3 songs also have a practice course under them: the part broken into the few things actually different about it, one at a time, ending with you playing the whole song against the record.

A good place to start is "Don't Need Sunshine" at 95 BPM, the slowest of them, or "Don't Need Sunshine" at 16 bars, the shortest. Sheet music, tab, MIDI and MusicXML download from every chart if you would rather read it away from the screen.

QUESTIONS

How many The Darkness drum tabs are there?

3 The Darkness drum charts, each read from a real score and playable along to the record in the browser. 2 of them come with a practice course that breaks the part into exercises and takes each one up to tempo.

Are The Darkness songs hard to play on drums?

Tempos here run from 95 to 132 BPM. The slowest is "Don't Need Sunshine" at 95 BPM, and the shortest is "Don't Need Sunshine" at 16 bars, which makes either a reasonable place to start. Every chart also has a simplified version with the hi-hat pulled back and the fills written as eighths on the snare.

What key are most The Darkness songs in?

Most often A major, B minor and E major. The catalogue files them under arena rock, british, classic rock and glam.

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