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A Sombra da Maldade · Cidade Negra

A Sombra da Maldade · Cidade Negra
EXERCISE 11 OF 45
Join Chorus 2 to Part D (bars 15-17)
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0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART D
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBDCEF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
JOIN · 19
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Sombra da Maldade on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
61/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-28, 37-40 and 57-68, and 1 more place -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x-x---x-xxx---x-|
A Sombra da Maldade -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-13 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-32 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-57 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-77 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Sombra da Maldade?

108 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 A Sombra da Maldade hard to play on drums?

61 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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