darkest signals · Kuma

18 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 0:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
18
LENGTH
0:39
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-18 -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
DARKEST SIGNALS · BARS 11-12
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 10.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

18 bars across 2 sections: 12 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-18.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is darkest signals?

110 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 signals hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

18 bars, about 0:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 signals?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 10.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 18 BARS ANALYSED
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