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This Darkened Heart · All That Remains

EXERCISE 5 OF 45
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
118 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
PART C
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Darkened Heart on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
236 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 2-22, snare through bars 23-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, snare through bars 50-65, hi-hat through bars 66-86 and snare through bars 87-97, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |x---------------|------------x---|
This Darkened Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F, H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 4-38 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-161 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-113 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 110-134 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 126-146 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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