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Only Shallow · My Bloody Valentine

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Outro
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OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Only Shallow on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bar 1 and ride through bars 2-78.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 16 more places -- 73.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Only Shallow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 21, 33, 37 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Only Shallow?

80 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 Only Shallow hard to play on drums?

43 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?

78 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Only Shallow?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 21, 33, 37 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED