THE DARK · Dexcore

127 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 7 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
THE DARK · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 28, 38, 42, 46, 70 and 4 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 13 sections: 75 keep time, 10 are fills and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-124.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
BREAK 2
PART R
PART Z
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEKS10AEZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is THE DARK?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is THE DARK hard to play on drums?

62 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 DARK?

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 28, 38, 42, 46, 70 and 4 more.

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