Darkness Washed Over the Dude · Harrison Bergeron

229 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 117-123, 125-131 and 133-137, and 2 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
DARKNESS WASHED OVER THE DUDE · BAR 117
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 20, 22, 32, 36 and 16 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 24 sections: 139 keep time, 22 are fills, 27 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-143.

PART O
PART W
PART AG
CHORUS
PART BC
20 groovesAJWOBCAG+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darkness Washed Over the Dude?

163 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Darkness Washed Over the Dude hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 91 exercises over 30 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Darkness Washed Over the Dude?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 20, 22, 32, 36 and 16 more.

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