Dark Horse · Converge

105 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 15 and 19-20, and 4 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
DARK HORSE · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 44 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 10-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 32-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 14 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 10 sections: 37 keep time, 50 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-65.

PART A
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART V
PART X
PART AA
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesENACS10A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark Horse?

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

Is Dark Horse hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dark Horse?

7 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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