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Dark Is the Sun · pentagram

EXERCISE 5 OF 29
Chorus into Part B with the record (bars 19-26)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dark Is the Sun on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-96, ride through bars 97-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-163.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Dark Is the Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-97 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 10-36 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 93-158 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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