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Shadow Play · Rory Gallagher

EXERCISE 11 OF 32
Groove F
156 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCHS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shadow Play on drums

184 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8 and snare through bars 9-184.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-35 and 37-43, and 23 more places -- 80.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HF |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Shadow Play -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 20, 36, 44, 60, 64 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 159-184 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Shadow Play?

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

Is Shadow Play hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Play?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 20, 36, 44, 60, 64 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED