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

EXERCISE 32 OF 72
Groove P
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PART D
PART G
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART S13
PART D
OUTRO
10 groovesJDGYT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darkest Hour - "Stand and Receive Your Judgment" on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-38, toms through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-48, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Darkest Hour - "Stand and Receive Your Judgment" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-33 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-41 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-66 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 63-85 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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