The Darkest Nights · As I Lay Dying

168 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 37-39, and 14 more places -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
THE DARKEST NIGHTS · BAR 133
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 48, 60, 76, 84, 104 and 4 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 140 · LANDS ON BAR 141 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 10 sections: 117 keep time, 10 are fills and 28 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 117-139.

CHORUS
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesALFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Darkest Nights?

175 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 Nights hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Nights?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 48, 60, 76, 84, 104 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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