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After Dark · Tito & Tarantula

After Dark · Tito & Tarantula
EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play After Dark on drums

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

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
22/100

snare through bars 2-103.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B, D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 37-60 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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