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The Dark Of The Matinée · Franz Ferdinand

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
7 groovesBDCNG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Dark Of The Matinée on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-53, hi-hat through bars 54-77 and snare through bars 78-88, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 27-34 and 38-45, and 2 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o-----|
SD |----x-------xxxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
The Dark Of The Matinée -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 26, 61, 76 and 111.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-75 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-58 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-84 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-92 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Dark Of The Matinée?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Of The Matinée hard to play on drums?

51 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Dark Of The Matinée?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 26, 61, 76 and 111.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED