Shadow People · Testament

223 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 5:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21-23 and 25-31, and 8 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
SHADOW PEOPLE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 49 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 10-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

223 bars across 19 sections: 102 keep time, 55 are fills and 42 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-114.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AD
PART AM
PART AA
15 groovesNZAARAD+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shadow People?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Shadow People hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 27 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 People?

22 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED
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