Dusk · deathpair

253 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
253
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-60, 64-66 and 68-69, and 10 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
DUSK · BAR 105
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 12, 14, 18, 22, 24 and 42 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

253 bars across 24 sections: 139 keep time, 49 are fills, 17 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 160-174.

PART P
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART BA
BREAK
20 groovesTRPACBA+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dusk?

200 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 Dusk hard to play on drums?

57 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

253 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 27 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dusk?

19 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 12, 14, 18, 22, 24 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 253 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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