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In The Shadows · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 17 OF 112
Groove H -- Part H
84 / 227 BARS COVERED
0 / 112 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART E
PART H
PART N
PART H
CHORUS
PART AN
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesACKALYH+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 12
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Shadows on drums

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.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
91/100

hi-hat through bars 3-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-37, hi-hat through bars 38-55 and silence through bars 56-62, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    105
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
In The Shadows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 87 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 -- AC -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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