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rest in darknes 2 · davi

EXERCISE 7 OF 22
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-4)
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0 / 22 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART B
PART E
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKBIEA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play rest in darknes 2 on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-30, silence through bars 31-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-51 and 53-76 -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
rest in darknes 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 46 and 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- K, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-51 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is rest in darknes 2?

90 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 rest in darknes 2 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 rest in darknes 2?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 46 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED