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Shadow Boxing · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 20 OF 45
Groove N
74 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shadow Boxing on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-38, hi-hat through bars 39-62 and snare through bars 63-79, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--xxxxxx--x-x---|
Shadow Boxing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-47 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 55-71 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 77-101 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 101-120 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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