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Darkness · Sweet Spine

Darkness · Sweet Spine
EXERCISE 22 OF 37
2-bar fill at bar 65 and 1 more
85 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART T
OUTRO 2
8 groovesES1TBS7+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darkness on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-30, hi-hat through bars 31-50, snare through bars 51-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-66, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-22, 25-30 and 43, and 11 more places -- 51% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-x-----x---x-|
Darkness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 23, 24, 32, 41, 42, 50 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E, G (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-83 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S7 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part T and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Darkness?

130 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 hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Darkness?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 23, 24, 32, 41, 42, 50 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED