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DArkSide · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove B -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
BREAK 3
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBCENI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DArkSide on drums

113 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-71, toms through bars 72-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-92, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 23 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x-x-|
DArkSide -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 57, 72, 73, 91, 99 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B, C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-34 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-51 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-73 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 90-113 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is DArkSide?

168 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?

47 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 DArkSide?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 57, 72, 73, 91, 99 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED