The Burning Darkness · At The Gates

48 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 1:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-26 and 35-36 -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE BURNING DARKNESS · BARS 23-24
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 24 and 3 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 8 sections: 18 keep time, 9 are fills, 4 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-35.

PART D
PART A
PART I
PART J
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesLS8DIA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Burning Darkness?

130 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Burning Darkness hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 The Burning Darkness?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 24 and 3 more.

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