The Dark Kiss · Abigor

243 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 14 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
THE DARK KISS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

35 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 8, 12, 57, 65, 68, 69 and 52 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

31 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

243 bars across 24 sections: 146 keep time, 58 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
16 groovesAGOAOBJ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Dark Kiss?

165 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 Kiss hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

243 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 95 exercises over 29 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 Dark Kiss?

35 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 8, 12, 57, 65, 68, 69 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 243 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Abigor drum parts

AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →