Kissing The Shadows · Children Of Bodom

151 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 20-21 and 24-25, and 4 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
KISSING THE SHADOWS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 18, 19 and 27 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 14 sections: 93 keep time, 33 are fills, 14 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-34.

PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART V
PART Z
10 groovesEBVLZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kissing The Shadows?

144 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 Kissing The Shadows hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Kissing The Shadows?

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 18, 19 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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