Spark In The Dark · Alice Cooper

129 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-32, 34 and 36, and 13 more places -- 87.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
SPARK IN THE DARK · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 33, 69 and 93.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars: 125 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-129.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spark In The Dark?

138 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 Spark In The Dark hard to play on drums?

49 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Spark In The Dark?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 33, 69 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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