Darker Brighter · Gilgamesh

181 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 55 and 69, and 4 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DARKER BRIGHTER · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 10, 16, 17 and 42 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 23 sections: 66 keep time, 48 are fills, 34 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-49.

PART S2
PART AE
PART AE
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
17 groovesKAEBOS2F+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darker Brighter?

120 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 Darker Brighter hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Darker Brighter?

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 10, 16, 17 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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