Darkside of the Sun · Tokio Hotel

107 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-33, 58-66 and 68-73, and 4 more places -- 63.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DARKSIDE OF THE SUN · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 67, 74, 82, 104 and 107.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 4 sections: 48 keep time, 5 are fills, 41 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-57.

COUNT-IN
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEDKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darkside of the Sun?

125 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 Darkside of the Sun hard to play on drums?

45 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Darkside of the Sun?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 67, 74, 82, 104 and 107.

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