After Dark · Tito & Tarantula

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
22/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 9-32 and 41-56, and 1 more place -- 52.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
AFTER DARK · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 8 sections: 94 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-32.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is After Dark?

100 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 After Dark hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in After Dark?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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