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In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion · Agalloch

EXERCISE 27 OF 70
Groove O
250 / 391 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
391
LENGTH
12:10
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-65, hi-hat through bars 66-81 and ride through bars 82-97, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34                                               35
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----|------x-----x-----------------------------x-----|
In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- J, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-86 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 89-311 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 174-186 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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