can you see me in the dark? · Halestorm, I Prevail

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

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% 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% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

Where it comes off the beat

7 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 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

3 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: 62 keep time, 21 are fills, 7 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

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

Questions

What BPM is can you 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 you see me in the dark? hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 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 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 can you see me in the dark??

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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