Darkest Hour · Demons

146 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49-51 and 53-55, and 10 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DARKEST HOUR · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 24, 28, 31 and 26 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 12 sections: 93 keep time, 32 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

PART A
PART H
PART J
PART H
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AG
OUTRO
9 groovesSHAAGR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darkest Hour?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Darkest Hour hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Darkest Hour?

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 24, 28, 31 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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