45 · Shinedown (Md)

98 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 76 BPM, 3:52 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / IndieUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 49-54, and 6 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
45 · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 28, 36, 48, 60, 70 and 8 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 10 sections: 65 keep time, 14 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGCAAFN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 45?

76 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 45 hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 45?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 28, 36, 48, 60, 70 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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