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Dark Reflections · Candlemass

EXERCISE 13 OF 56
Join Chorus to Part D (bars 23-25)
112 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART I
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAIDSYFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dark Reflections on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-52, ride through bars 53-60, toms through bars 61-76 and ride through bars 77-84, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 13 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-61 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 101-140 -- 10 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dark Reflections?

132 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 Reflections hard to play on drums?

51 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Reflections?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED