Dark Of The Sun · Arch Enemy

266 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 7:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
7:05
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 20 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DARK OF THE SUN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 12, 24, 32 and 67 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

266 bars across 27 sections: 135 keep time, 73 are fills and 33 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-71.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART AA
CHORUS 6
PART I
10 groovesEISAO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark Of The Sun?

150 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 Of The Sun hard to play on drums?

59 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

266 bars, about 7:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Of The Sun?

19 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 12, 24, 32 and 67 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 266 BARS ANALYSED
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