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Shadow On The Sun · Audioslave

EXERCISE 2 OF 35
Groove H -- Part H
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0 / 35 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H, PART G
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shadow On The Sun on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
83/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, ride through bars 29-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-64, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---g---g---x---g---g---g---g---|
RD |----x---x-------x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---x---x---------x-|
Shadow On The Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-38 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-49 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-65 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED