Past Shadows · Agathodaimon

162 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-48, 50-52 and 54-55, and 10 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
PAST SHADOWS · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 11, 19, 23, 27, 33, 37 and 33 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 16 sections: 89 keep time, 39 are fills, 12 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-18.

PART E
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPECBF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Past Shadows?

135 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 Past Shadows hard to play on drums?

64 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Past Shadows?

12 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 11, 19, 23, 27, 33, 37 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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