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Darker Days · Mushroomhead

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove D -- Chorus 2
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0 / 33 PASSED · 43 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darker Days on drums

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

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-32, snare through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-58, snare through bars 59-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-86, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Darker Days -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-24 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-61 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-95 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 94-125 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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