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Shadows Of Death · Aura Noir

Shadows Of Death · Aura Noir
EXERCISE 8 OF 79
Groove D -- Part D
53 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART Z
PART V
PART Z
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKZAIVA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shadows Of Death on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 7:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
7:48
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-34, snare through bars 35-42, kick and crashes through bars 43-50, ride through bars 51-66, hi-hat through bars 67-74 and ride through bars 75-90, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59, 61 and 63, and 11 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    59
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x----x-----x----x-------x-------|
SD |---x----x----x-----x----x----x--|
BD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|
Shadows Of Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 5, 17, 19, 21, 23 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-14 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-12 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shadows Of Death?

87 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 Of Death hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 7:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Of Death?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 5, 17, 19, 21, 23 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED