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45 · Shinedown (Md)

45 · Shinedown (Md)
EXERCISE 17 OF 40
Fill at bar 48
67 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART N
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 45 on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-23, snare through bars 24-31, hi-hat through bars 32-48, snare through bars 49-81 and toms through bars 82-83, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x---g---g---x---g---g---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------------------x---|
45 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G, C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-43 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 69-75 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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