The Dark Dawn · Black Aliances Of Death

120 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 43 and 47, and 3 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE DARK DAWN · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 17 sections: 90 keep time, 1 is a stop and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART S9
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBFS1AS9+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Dark Dawn?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Dark Dawn hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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