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Dark Of The Sun · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 5 OF 89
Groove S -- Part S (a two-bar phrase)
107 / 266 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART S
PART AA
CHORUS 6
PART I
PART S
10 groovesEISAO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dark Of The Sun on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
7:05
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-32, ride through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-56, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x-----------|
Dark Of The Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- E, I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-89 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-72 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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