Dark · Invent Animate

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53, 55 and 59, and 4 more places -- 6.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
DARK · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27 and 27 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 17-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 17 sections: 51 keep time, 33 are fills, 11 are stops and 22 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART U
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
PART AS
PART AX
OUTRO 2
14 groovesHS1AXAGAD+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark?

105 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 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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?

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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