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My Dark Desires · Dark Funeral

EXERCISE 15 OF 58
Join Chorus to Part F (bars 16-18)
120 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBLQHF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Dark Desires on drums

195 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
87/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-113, toms through bars 114-121, hi-hat through bars 122-152 and toms through bars 153-162, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 3 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
My Dark Desires -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 25, 33 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-26 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 22-34 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-124 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-136 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Dark Desires?

188 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is My Dark Desires hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 My Dark Desires?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 25, 33 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED