Darker Times · In Flames

90 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% 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 -- 68.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DARKER TIMES · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 25, 29, 33, 37, 45 and 9 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 7 sections: 66 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-24.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBMS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darker Times?

120 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 Times hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Times?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 25, 29, 33, 37, 45 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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