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Darts · System of a Down

EXERCISE 2 OF 23
Groove B -- Verse (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAKBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Darts on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-36, toms through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42, toms through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-46, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 13-16 and 29-31, and 6 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 33, 34 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-36 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Darts?

106 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 Darts hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Darts?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 33, 34 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED