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Shadows Over A Lost Kingdom · Dissection

EXERCISE 4 OF 62
Groove AP -- Part AP (a two-bar phrase)
29 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AP, PART AX
PART B
PART B
PART W
CHORUS
PART AP
CHORUS 2
PART AX
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAEBAPWAX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shadows Over A Lost Kingdom on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 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
128
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, silence through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-47 and snare through bars 48-61, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-54, 56-61 and 82-88, and 1 more place -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Shadows Over A Lost Kingdom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 26, 40, 42 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part S3 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shadows Over A Lost Kingdom?

105 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 Over A Lost Kingdom hard to play on drums?

62 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?

128 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Over A Lost Kingdom?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 26, 40, 42 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED