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Dark Clouds · Crypta

EXERCISE 1 OF 102
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART W
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART A
PART AX
PART J
CHORUS 6
16 groovesBWJAAX+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 5
JOIN · 20
LINK · 8
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dark Clouds on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
270
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-11, snare through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-33 and toms through bars 34-36, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Dark Clouds -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-84 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-36 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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