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Past Shadows · Agathodaimon

Past Shadows · Agathodaimon
EXERCISE 33 OF 53
Fill at bar 56, 97 and 140 (a small one)
136 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Past Shadows on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-113, snare through bars 114-121, ride through bars 122-129, silence through bars 130-133 and kick and crashes through bars 134-137, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Past Shadows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- P -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-114 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-46 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-73 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 98-125 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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