Darker Still · Parkway Drive

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 12 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
DARKER STILL · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 27, 31, 34, 39, 57 and 16 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 11 sections: 60 keep time, 22 are fills, 12 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-55.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S7
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCTXS7S3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darker Still?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Still hard to play on drums?

53 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Still?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 27, 31, 34, 39, 57 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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