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Shadows Follow · Metallica

EXERCISE 6 OF 61
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-15)
143 / 272 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART H
CHORUS 5
PART K
OUTRO
9 groovesGKHAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shadows Follow on drums

272 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 6:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
272
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-26, hi-hat through bars 27-75, snare through bars 76-85, kick and crashes through bars 86-87, hi-hat through bars 88-110 and snare through bars 111-120, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-44, 46 and 50, and 24 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 127, 128 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- G, K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-60 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-114 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shadows Follow?

168 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 Shadows Follow hard to play on drums?

58 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

272 bars, about 6:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Shadows Follow?

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 127, 128 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 272 BARS ANALYSED