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Dark Divination · Dark Divination

Dark Divination · Dark Divination
EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEGS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dark Divination on drums

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

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 2-91, silence through bars 92-102, hi-hat through bars 103-126 and kick and crashes through bars 127-130.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Dark Divination -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-54 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 51-110 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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