Darkness Has Landed · Barathrum

100 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 33-48 and 85-100 -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
DARKNESS HAS LANDED · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 6 sections: 95 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-84.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darkness Has Landed?

155 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 Darkness Has Landed hard to play on drums?

52 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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