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Darkness Calls · Alpha Current

EXERCISE 10 OF 33
Groove G
39 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART S5
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKNES11S5+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darkness Calls on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
57/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-21, silence through bars 22-23, snare through bars 24-31, hi-hat through bars 32-51 and snare through bars 52-57, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-38 and 60, and 3 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Darkness Calls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 49, 50 and 51.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- K, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-9 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 20-41 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Darkness Calls?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Darkness Calls hard to play on drums?

57 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Darkness Calls?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 20, 49, 50 and 51.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED