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in the dark · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 11 OF 26
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 19-21)
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PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBAJS8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play in the dark on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-27, toms through bars 28-29 and snare through bars 30-40, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-24, 41-48 and 73-80, and 1 more place -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-x-xxx-x-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |--------------x-|
BD |x--x--x--xx----x|
in the dark -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 36, 52, 68 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D, A -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-52 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 55-64 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is in the dark?

78 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 in the dark hard to play on drums?

50 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in in the dark?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 36, 52, 68 and 72.

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