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From The Dark Past · Mayhem

EXERCISE 5 OF 33
Groove W -- Part W
70 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
CHORUS
PART S3
PART W
OUTRO
BREAK 4
7 groovesKS8WS3S5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play From The Dark Past on drums

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.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-11, hi-hat through bars 12-43, ride through bars 44-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-94, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
From The Dark Past -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-91 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 81-111 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 95-119 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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