Shadow Boxing · Parkway Drive

127 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 63-69 and 71-75, and 6 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
SHADOW BOXING · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 38, 46, 54, 56, 57, 58 and 10 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 56-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 16 sections: 80 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-113.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART B
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCFJBS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shadow Boxing?

136 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Boxing hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Boxing?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 38, 46, 54, 56, 57, 58 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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