Dark Days · Parkway Drive

126 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-47, 49-51 and 54-55, and 5 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DARK DAYS · BARS 46-47
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 8 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 9-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 15 sections: 87 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-61.

PART A
PART S2
PART H
PART M
PART O
CHORUS
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART X
OUTRO 2
11 groovesRMOXA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark Days?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dark Days hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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 Days?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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