Dark Is the Sun · pentagram

163 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 9, and 60 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
DARK IS THE SUN · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 34, 42, 48, 60 and 11 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 9 sections: 120 keep time, 17 are fills and 16 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-59.

PART D
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
3 groovesADBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark Is the Sun?

112 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 Is the Sun hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Is the Sun?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 34, 42, 48, 60 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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