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Shadows Between The Sky · Buckethead

EXERCISE 21 OF 29
Run J1 · Part J (bars 57-68)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART B
PART F
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesABJFOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shadows Between The Sky on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-44, toms through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56, ride through bars 57-66, snare through bars 67-76 and ride through bars 77-82, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---|
BD |x---------x-|
Shadows Between The Sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-50 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-60 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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