Darker Days · Mushroomhead

125 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 23 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DARKER DAYS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 33, 34, 46, 54, 58 and 5 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 58-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 19 sections: 92 keep time, 11 are fills, 11 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDAQGF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darker Days?

140 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 Days hard to play on drums?

60 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?

125 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Darker Days?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 33, 34, 46, 54, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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