Dark Divination · Dark Divination

130 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-25, 27-34 and 51-53, and 2 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DARK DIVINATION · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 2, 26, 50, 54, 58, 114 and 1 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 7 sections: 102 keep time, 7 are fills, 8 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-25.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEGS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark Divination?

140 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 Dark Divination hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Dark Divination?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 2, 26, 50, 54, 58, 114 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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