can u see me in the dark · Halestorm & I Prevail

113 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 6 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
CAN U SEE ME IN THE DARK · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 54, 55, 56 and 15 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 54-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 15 sections: 57 keep time, 21 are fills, 11 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART Q
PART V
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEBQSP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is can u see me in the dark?

123 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 can u see me in the dark hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in can u see me in the dark?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 54, 55, 56 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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