This Darkened Heart · All That Remains

184 bars at 236 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
236 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-23, 26-31 and 34-48, and 7 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 236 BPM
THIS DARKENED HEART · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 17, 49, 57, 65, 73 and 8 more.

LOOP · 236 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 236 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 236 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 236 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 20 sections: 113 keep time, 14 are fills, 34 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 158-172.

PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART M
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHFCBK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Darkened Heart?

236 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 This Darkened Heart hard to play on drums?

50 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 This Darkened Heart?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 17, 49, 57, 65, 73 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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