How Did We Get So Dark? · Royal Blood

113 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-24, 42-48 and 51-56 -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 133 BPM
HOW DID WE GET SO DARK? · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 25, 57, 74, 75, 76, 77 and 6 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 74-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 12 sections: 84 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
PART V
PART E
8 groovesBEGVS7+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is How Did We Get So Dark??

133 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 How Did We Get So Dark? hard to play on drums?

61 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 How Did We Get So Dark??

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 25, 57, 74, 75, 76, 77 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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