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Blue Shadow (Ending Scene) · Blue Shadow

EXERCISE 11 OF 14
Groove I
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0 / 14 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFHCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blue Shadow (Ending Scene) on drums

60 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:07 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
40/100

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 13-19, 29-35 and 45-60 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x-x-xxxxx-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------------x-|
Blue Shadow (Ending Scene) -- 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 13 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 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Blue Shadow (Ending Scene)?

113 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 Blue Shadow (Ending Scene) hard to play on drums?

40 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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