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Shadows Of The Night · Pat Benatar

EXERCISE 6 OF 16
Run A1 · Part A (bars 8-21)
60 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
COUNT-IN
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDJAS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shadows Of The Night on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-27, 30-38 and 40-50, and 4 more places -- 48.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 51, 52 and 89.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D, J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-64 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Shadows Of The Night?

111 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 Of The Night hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Of The Night?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 51, 52 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED