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Sea of Shadows · Nython

EXERCISE 23 OF 65
Groove P -- Part P (a two-bar phrase)
84 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART P
PART S6
PART L
PART P
PART V
PART L
PART P
PART V
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAEVLS6P+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sea of Shadows on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-24 and silence through bars 25-35, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    65                               66
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---o-------x---x---o-------|x---x---o-------x---x---o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x-x-x---x-x-x---|x---x-----------x-----------x---|
Sea of Shadows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, AE -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-10 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part S3 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-39 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part S6 and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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