The Dark Side · Muse

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat and snare.

PopElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-16, and 10 more places -- 85.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE DARK SIDE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 5 sections: 83 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-33.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesBS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Dark Side?

100 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 Side hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Dark Side?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

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