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Shadow On The Wall · Mike Oldfield

Shadow On The Wall · Mike Oldfield
EXERCISE 5 OF 30
Groove A -- Part A
41 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shadow On The Wall on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
39/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x---x---x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Shadow On The Wall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 24, 44, 48, 56, 64 and 3 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 -- D, I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-28 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-45 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED