Lost in the Dark · Concerto Moon

196 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-36, 44 and 46, and 26 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
LOST IN THE DARK · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 45 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 12-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 17 sections: 114 keep time, 51 are fills, 7 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-36.

PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesOFS15MR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lost in the Dark?

150 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 Lost in the Dark hard to play on drums?

59 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 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 Lost in the Dark?

24 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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