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After Dark · Asian Kung-Fu Generation

EXERCISE 14 OF 53
Groove H -- Part H
101 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO
7 groovesMBCZH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play After Dark on drums

153 bars at 191 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
191 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 2-91, ride through bars 92-93, hi-hat through bars 94-97, toms through bars 98-103, hi-hat through bars 104-105 and ride through bars 106-113, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48, 50-54 and 58-63, and 7 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
After Dark -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 9, 13, 41, 49, 56, 57 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-51 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-104 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is After Dark?

191 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 After Dark hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 After Dark?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 9, 13, 41, 49, 56, 57 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED