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Dark · Unknown Artis

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove I -- Chorus
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PART D
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART S13
PART Q
PART U
PART L
OUTRO 2
15 groovesILUS13J+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dark on drums

169 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25, silence through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-33 and silence through bars 34-37, and 32 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-53 and 72-87 -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |-------x-------x|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Dark -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 55, 59, 62, 63, 66, 67 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-33 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-70 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-116 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dark?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dark hard to play on drums?

62 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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?

5 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 55, 59, 62, 63, 66, 67 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED