In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion · Agalloch

391 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 12:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
391
LENGTH
12:10
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-49, 66-81 and 98-116, and 5 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
IN THE SHADOW OF OUR PALE COMPANION · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 21, 29, 33, 53, 61, 65 and 25 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

391 bars across 25 sections: 196 keep time, 32 are fills, 87 are stops and 51 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 280-302.

PART J
CHORUS 4
BREAK 2
PART Y
PART J
13 groovesDJS11VW+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion hard to play on drums?

59 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

391 bars, about 12:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 21, 29, 33, 53, 61, 65 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 391 BARS ANALYSED
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