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The Darkest City · Omnium Gatherum

The Darkest City · Omnium Gatherum
EXERCISE 14 OF 93
Groove G -- Part G
154 / 276 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G, PART K
CHORUS
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART G
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Darkest City on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
276
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, toms through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-29, ride through bars 30-35 and toms through bars 36-37, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Darkest City -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- E, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-225 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-109 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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