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Shades · Beralath

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove E -- Part E
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0 / 37 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S5
PART AI
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesJEAIS5S4+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shades on drums

84 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 2:11 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-41, silence through bars 42-48, hi-hat through bars 49-76 and snare through bars 77-81, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15 -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Shades -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 16, 18 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shades?

120 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Shades hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Shades?

6 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 16, 18 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED