Dark Clouds · Crypta

270 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
270
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6-10 and 14-17, and 8 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 230 BPM
DARK CLOUDS · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 5, 12, 13, 19, 34 and 40 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

270 bars across 29 sections: 172 keep time, 48 are fills, 17 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 229-243.

CHORUS
PART A
PART AX
PART J
16 groovesBWJAAX+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark Clouds?

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

Is Dark Clouds hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

270 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 27 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Clouds?

18 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 5, 12, 13, 19, 34 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 270 BARS ANALYSED
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