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How Did We Get So Dark? · Royal Blood

EXERCISE 3 OF 34
Groove E -- Part E
37 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How Did We Get So Dark? on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-57, snare through bars 58-65, hi-hat through bars 66-82 and silence through bars 83-85, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |g-o-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|--x-----x-x---x-|
HF |x---x-----------|----------------|
How Did We Get So Dark? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-82 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-101 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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