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Looming Shadows Of Our Past Time · Alternative Competition 6

EXERCISE 17 OF 35
Run M1 · Part M (bars 48-53)
79 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART F
PART M
PART O
PART S
PART O
OUTRO
11 groovesS15OSFB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Looming Shadows Of Our Past Time on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 6:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
38/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, silence through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-135 and silence through bars 136-156.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53, 55-57 and 59-61, and 3 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---|
BD |x---x-----x-x---|
Looming Shadows Of Our Past Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- O, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-31 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-96 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Looming Shadows Of Our Past Time?

115 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 Looming Shadows Of Our Past Time hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Looming Shadows Of Our Past Time?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED