Dark · Catch your Breath

138 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 36-37, 40-41 and 44-45, and 7 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 184 BPM
DARK · BARS 36-37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 42, 90, 98, 105, 106, 130 and 1 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 105-106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 138
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 13 sections: 51 keep time, 7 are fills, 37 are stops and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-74.

COUNT-IN
PART C
BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART K
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
OUTRO
11 groovesDKS1S12S5+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dark hard to play on drums?

38 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Dark?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 42, 90, 98, 105, 106, 130 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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