Shadowmaker · Lovebites

220 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-49, 56-61 and 81-97, and 11 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
SHADOWMAKER · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 32, 36, 38 and 51 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

220 bars across 20 sections: 125 keep time, 57 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-97.

COUNT-IN
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
9 groovesPGEQS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shadowmaker?

155 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 Shadowmaker hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Shadowmaker?

22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 32, 36, 38 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED
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