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In the dark · venturing

In the dark · venturing
EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS6AS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In the dark on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 2:06 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-29, silence through bars 30-36 and snare through bars 37-69.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 12 and 16, and 6 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x---x-------x---|
In the dark -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-44 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is In the dark?

131 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?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED