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The Dark Side · Muse

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 9 PASSED · 74 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesBS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Dark Side on drums

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

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
27/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-34, silence through bars 35-37, ride through bars 38-61, silence through bars 62-63 and ride through bars 64-92.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--xx--xx--xx--xx|
The Dark Side -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED