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Shadow Autonomous​ · Erra

EXERCISE 33 OF 87
Groove Y -- Part Y
132 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 87 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
PART T
PART C
PART P
PART T
PART Y
PART J
OUTRO 2
12 groovesZTGCP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shadow Autonomous​ on drums

205 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 4:26 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-6, ride through bars 7-14, snare through bars 15-21, hi-hat through bars 22-63 and snare through bars 64-72, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 47 and 65-67, and 18 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    134
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |x-----x---x-|
Shadow Autonomous​ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 10, 14, 15, 16, 18, 22 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- G, Z -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-13 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-24 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-93 -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-112 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 45-74 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shadow Autonomous​?

150 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 Shadow Autonomous​ hard to play on drums?

52 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Shadow Autonomous​?

21 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 10, 14, 15, 16, 18, 22 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED