Red Shadows · Tsol

161 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 22-23, and 13 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 194 BPM
RED SHADOWS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 12, 20, 24 and 26 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 18 sections: 103 keep time, 32 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-35.

CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART P
PART E
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIEPHN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red Shadows?

194 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Red Shadows hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Red Shadows?

9 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 12, 20, 24 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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