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Darkest Hour · Demons

Darkest Hour · Demons
EXERCISE 18 OF 80
Fill at bar 28 and 64 (a small one)
84 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART X
PART A
PART H
PART J
PART H
CHORUS
PART X
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AG
OUTRO
9 groovesSHAAGR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darkest Hour on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bars 1-23, toms through bars 24-36, snare through bars 37-59, toms through bars 60-63, snare through bars 64-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-74, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Darkest Hour -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- S -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part J and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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