From The Dark Past · Mayhem

159 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 6:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
6:58
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-18, 20-26 and 28-34, and 10 more places -- 52.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
FROM THE DARK PAST · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 16 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 8 sections: 78 keep time, 22 are fills, 10 are stops and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-18.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART W
OUTRO
BREAK 4
7 groovesKS8WS3S5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is From The Dark Past?

115 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 From The Dark Past hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 6:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 From The Dark Past?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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