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Shadow People · Testament

EXERCISE 10 OF 110
Groove M -- Part M
68 / 223 BARS COVERED
0 / 110 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART M
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Z
PART AD
PART AM
PART AA
15 groovesNZAARAD+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 4
JOIN · 18
LINK · 11
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shadow People on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-46, toms through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72 and snare through bars 73-78, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Shadow People -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 87 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-68 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-161 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-169 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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