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Darkshines · Muse

EXERCISE 22 OF 29
Join Part K to Outro (bars 97-99)
120 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIBKMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darkshines on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 2-24, snare through bars 25-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-53, snare through bars 54-73 and ride through bars 74-104, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 58-64 and 67-72, and 2 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x---x-x-x-----|
SD |----xx------xxxx|
BD |x-x---x-x---x---|
Darkshines -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 65, 114, 123 and 124.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- I, K -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-94 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 95-125 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Darkshines?

109 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 Darkshines hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Darkshines?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 65, 114, 123 and 124.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED