Dark Night of the Soul (not AI) · Mayhem

193 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
6:19
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 128, 130 and 132, and 7 more places -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL (NOT AI) · BAR 134
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 17, 20 and 39 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 23 sections: 108 keep time, 45 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-71.

CHORUS
PART V
PART AH
CHORUS 4
PART R
PART BQ
PART BW
18 groovesABQRAHV+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark Night of the Soul (not AI)?

120 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 Night of the Soul (not AI) hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 6:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 96 exercises over 34 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Night of the Soul (not AI)?

27 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 17, 20 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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