Shadow On The Wall · Mike Oldfield

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 25-27, and 6 more places -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
SHADOW ON THE WALL · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 24, 44, 48, 56, 64 and 3 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 7 sections: 57 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDIAGHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shadow On The Wall?

87 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 On The Wall hard to play on drums?

39 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 On The Wall?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 24, 44, 48, 56, 64 and 3 more.

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