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Shadow From Mordor · Sacrilege

Shadow From Mordor · Sacrilege
EXERCISE 28 OF 30
Play the whole song with the record
197 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 202 BARS LIT
PART C
PART E
PART B
PART S4
BREAK
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFDCEB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shadow From Mordor on drums

202 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-18, ride through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, silence through bars 29-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-202.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 39 more places -- 57.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 86, 126, 138, 190, 194 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-81 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-41 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 79-85 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 86-168 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Shadow From Mordor?

180 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 Shadow From Mordor hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Shadow From Mordor?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 86, 126, 138, 190, 194 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED