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THE DARK · Dexcore

THE DARK · Dexcore
EXERCISE 9 OF 55
Groove B -- Part B
36 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play THE DARK on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-50, silence through bars 51-58 and snare through bars 59-77, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-50 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-66 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED