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Darkside · blink-182

EXERCISE 22 OF 59
Join Part C to Chorus 2 (bars 47-49)
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PART C
PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S
VERSE
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesMCAAAIAD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darkside on drums

113 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-56, toms through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-89, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16 and 43-47 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
T2 |----------------|----------x-----|
FT |----------------|--------------x-|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-x-----|
Darkside -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 56, 60 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-26 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-61 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Darkside?

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 Darkside hard to play on drums?

61 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Darkside?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 56, 60 and 8 more.

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