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Shadows in Time · Ingested

EXERCISE 34 OF 63
Run J1 · Chorus (bars 17-82)
51 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 66 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART F
PART F
CHORUS
PART AD
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJADFALE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shadows in Time on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, snare through bars 23-39, hi-hat through bars 40-54 and snare through bars 55-56, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 45-47 -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                                10
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|------------------------x-x-x-x-|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x-----------|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x-----------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Shadows in Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 10, 12, 14 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AD -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shadows in Time?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 in Time hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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 in Time?

18 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 10, 12, 14 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED