In The Shadow · CHIKIBAMBOUNI

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 2:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 8-9 and 12-13, and 19 more places -- 44.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 109 BPM
IN THE SHADOW · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 67.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 67
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 2 sections: 64 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-66.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Shadow?

109 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 In The Shadow 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in In The Shadow?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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