Shadow On The Sun · Audioslave

91 bars, 5:10, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 29-35 and 45-47, and 1 more place -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
SHADOW ON THE SUN · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 44, 48 and 64.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 12 sections: 69 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-91.

PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART H
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesESHCJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shadow On The Sun?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Shadow On The Sun hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 On The Sun?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 44, 48 and 64.

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