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Darker Brighter · Gilgamesh

Darker Brighter · Gilgamesh
EXERCISE 1 OF 86
Groove K -- Chorus
0 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART S2
CHORUS
PART AE
CHORUS 2
PART AE
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART O
OUTRO 2
17 groovesKAEBOS2F+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 3
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darker Brighter on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
40/100

toms through bars 3-5, snare through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-25, snare through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-56 and silence through bars 57-59, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Darker Brighter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- K, AV -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BO -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-24 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-26 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-38 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part Z and Part AE -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-79 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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