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Darkside of the Sun · Tokio Hotel

EXERCISE 17 OF 17
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEDKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darkside of the Sun on drums

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

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-33, hi-hat through bars 34-65, snare through bars 66-92, kick and crashes through bars 93-102, snare through bars 103-105 and toms through bars 106-107.

The beat

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.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Darkside of the Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED