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Darkway · The Bursthead

EXERCISE 7 OF 12
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 17-19)
263 / 269 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
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
GROOVE · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darkway on drums

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

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
269
LENGTH
7:10
DIFFICULTY
65/100

The time is kept on the toms the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    19
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |------------------x---x-|
SD |----x-----x---x-x---x---|
T1 |------x---x-----------x-|
T2 |----x---x-----x---------|
FT |--x---------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
Darkway -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-184 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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