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Dark Signs · Sleep Token

EXERCISE 8 OF 13
Groove H (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCALS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dark Signs on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 1-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-96, snare through bars 97-112, kick and crashes through bars 113-116 and silence through bars 117-132, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-48 -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1                                                                2
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
FT |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------x---------------|----------------x-----------------------------------------------|
Dark Signs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-158 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dark Signs?

142 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 Signs hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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