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It Only Gets Darker · Currents

EXERCISE 23 OF 79
Join Part C to Part G (bars 11-13)
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PART C
PART G
PART I
PART N
PART Q
PART AD
PART AN
CHORUS
OUTRO
18 groovesARANQIC+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It Only Gets Darker on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-20, silence through bars 21-40, snare through bars 41-43, toms through bars 44-45 and snare through bars 46-80, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 97-102 and 131-137 -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    98
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---------------|
BD |--------x-------|
It Only Gets Darker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- AN, I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 19-46 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-57 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is It Only Gets Darker?

130 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 It Only Gets Darker hard to play on drums?

51 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 It Only Gets Darker?

18 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED