Darkest Hour - "Stand and Receive Your Judgment" · Travis Orbin

138 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 37-38 and 51, and 8 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 210 BPM
DARKEST HOUR - "STAND AND RECEIVE YOUR JUDGMENT" · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 31, 32, 36 and 21 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 16 sections: 82 keep time, 29 are fills, 12 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-83.

PART D
PART G
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART D
OUTRO
10 groovesJDGYT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darkest Hour - "Stand and Receive Your Judgment"?

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

Is Darkest Hour - "Stand and Receive Your Judgment" hard to play on drums?

58 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 - "Stand and Receive Your Judgment"?

20 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 31, 32, 36 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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