Shade Astray (Official) · Invent Animate

167 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-45, 47-48 and 50-51, and 6 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
SHADE ASTRAY (OFFICIAL) · BARS 43-44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 40 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 10-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 18 sections: 72 keep time, 46 are fills, 29 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-133.

PART L
PART R
CHORUS
PART E
PART AI
CHORUS 2
PART S12
PART AQ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesZERS12AI+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shade Astray (Official)?

164 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 Shade Astray (Official) hard to play on drums?

51 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Shade Astray (Official)?

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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