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Red Shadows · Tsol

Red Shadows · Tsol
EXERCISE 4 OF 52
Groove D
78 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red Shadows on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and ride through bars 37-44, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Red Shadows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-50 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-65 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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