Shadows Between The Sky · Buckethead

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-28 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
SHADOWS BETWEEN THE SKY · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 48, 56, 59, 60, 63, 64 and 4 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 83-84 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 6 sections: 66 keep time, 10 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

CHORUS
PART B
PART F
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesABJFOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shadows Between The Sky?

105 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 Shadows Between The Sky hard to play on drums?

50 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Shadows Between The Sky?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 48, 56, 59, 60, 63, 64 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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