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When the Darkness Comes · Jeris Johnson

When the Darkness Comes · Jeris Johnson
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove C -- Part C
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0 / 26 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
9 groovesDCIS1O+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When the Darkness Comes on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-33, snare through bars 34-37, hi-hat through bars 38-48, snare through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-57, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-23, 38-40 and 42-47 -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 34, 58, 59 and 98.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-77 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 78-98 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is When the Darkness Comes?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is When the Darkness Comes hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in When the Darkness Comes?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 34, 58, 59 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED