Die Dunkelheit darbt · Bethlehem

136 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-48, 73-79 and 81-88, and 2 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
DIE DUNKELHEIT DARBT · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 16 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 24-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 15 sections: 49 keep time, 22 are fills, 35 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-136.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART S5
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART S9
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesKDPS5S9+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Die Dunkelheit darbt?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Die Dunkelheit darbt hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Die Dunkelheit darbt?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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