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The Dark Dawn · Black Aliances Of Death

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Dark Dawn on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-61, silence through bars 62-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-120.

The beat

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.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |------------------------------x-|
HH |x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-|
SD |--x-------x-------x-------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Dark Dawn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-41 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-61 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED