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Our Shangri-La · Mark Knopfler

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
VERSE
5 groovesBGECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Our Shangri-La on drums

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

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-135.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Our Shangri-La -- 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 82.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED