Our Shangri-La · Mark Knopfler

135 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-65 -- 46.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
OUR SHANGRI-LA · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 82.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 5 sections: 126 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-65.

CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
VERSE
5 groovesBGECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Our Shangri-La?

100 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 Our Shangri-La hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Our Shangri-La?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 82.

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