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Kissing The Shadows · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 30 OF 66
Fill at bar 48 and 97 (a small one)
106 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kissing The Shadows on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

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

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-39, hi-hat through bars 40-50, snare through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-84, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Kissing The Shadows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-61 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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