Darkest Day of Horror · Mortician

50 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 2:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 9-16 and 31-46 -- 56% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
DARKEST DAY OF HORROR · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 47, 48, 49 and 50.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 47-50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 7 sections: 39 keep time, 4 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-46.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darkest Day of Horror?

94 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 Darkest Day of Horror hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Darkest Day of Horror?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 47, 48, 49 and 50.

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