The Darkest City · Omnium Gatherum

276 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 6:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
276
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-28, 61-67 and 69-76, and 4 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
THE DARKEST CITY · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 36, 37, 38 and 45 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 36-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

276 bars across 20 sections: 159 keep time, 51 are fills, 42 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-31.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART AG
PART AJ
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEKAAJAG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Darkest City?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Darkest City hard to play on drums?

56 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

276 bars, about 6:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 17 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Darkest City?

22 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 36, 37, 38 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 276 BARS ANALYSED
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