In The Shadows · Children Of Bodom

227 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 104-106, 108-110 and 113-119, and 2 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
IN THE SHADOWS · BAR 105
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 15, 17, 18 and 31 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 25 sections: 131 keep time, 37 are fills, 25 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-124.

PART E
PART N
CHORUS
PART AN
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesACKALYH+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Shadows?

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

Is In The Shadows hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 27 sittings, about 26 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 Shadows?

24 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 15, 17, 18 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Children Of Bodom drum parts

EVERY CHILDREN OF BODOM CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →