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

can you see me in the dark? · Halestorm, I Prevail
EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEBAAFP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play can you see me in the dark? on drums

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

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-17, silence through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-40 and kick and crashes through bars 41-47, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |---x--x-----x---|---x--x-----x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---xxxxxx--|
can you see me in the dark? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, K -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-57 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-101 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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