Sea of Shadows · Nython

189 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65-67, 69-70 and 73-75, and 5 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
SEA OF SHADOWS · BARS 65-66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 17, 37, 38 and 17 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 20 sections: 90 keep time, 23 are fills, 33 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-127.

PART S6
PART L
PART V
PART L
PART V
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAEVLS6P+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sea of Shadows?

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

Is Sea of Shadows hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Sea of Shadows?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 17, 37, 38 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Nython drum parts

EVERY NYTHON CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →