Darkway · The Bursthead

269 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 7:10 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
269
LENGTH
7:10
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-56, 73-94 and 129-184, and 2 more places -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DARKWAY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

269 bars across 12 sections: 253 keep time, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-184.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Darkway?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Darkway hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

269 bars, about 7:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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