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Die Dunkelheit darbt · Bethlehem

EXERCISE 31 OF 60
Join Part D to Part G (bars 55-57)
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Die Dunkelheit darbt on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-33 and silence through bars 34-40, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Die Dunkelheit darbt -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- K -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-57 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-62 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-52 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-73 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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