Chasing Shadows · coldrain

157 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 41-43, and 15 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
CHASING SHADOWS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 44 and 26 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 15 sections: 90 keep time, 32 are fills, 12 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-28.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART Y
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEYAIOH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chasing Shadows?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Chasing Shadows hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Chasing Shadows?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 44 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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