Little Dark Age · MGMT

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 5:02 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-33, 38-54 and 56-58, and 12 more places -- 66.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
LITTLE DARK AGE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 9 sections: 104 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-122.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDGIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Little Dark Age?

97 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 Little Dark Age hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.

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