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Darkness Washed Over the Dude · Harrison Bergeron

Darkness Washed Over the Dude · Harrison Bergeron
EXERCISE 8 OF 107
Run C1 · Part C (bars 1-11)
60 / 229 BARS COVERED
0 / 107 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART O
PART W
PART AG
CHORUS
PART BC
20 groovesAJWOBCAG+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 27
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 6
JOIN · 19
LINK · 9
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darkness Washed Over the Dude on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-21, snare through bars 22-35, toms through bars 36-37, snare through bars 38-52 and kick and crashes through bars 53-62, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    117
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------------------------------|
SD |--g-g-g-g-g-g-g-x-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Darkness Washed Over the Dude -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 91 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 -- AJ -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 12-93 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 20-41 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 22 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED