Shady Lady - 1975 · Uriah Heep

156 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-39, and 9 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SHADY LADY - 1975 · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 42 and 32 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 17 sections: 92 keep time, 38 are fills, 5 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-148.

CHORUS
PART I
PART E
PART I
PART E
PART AF
OUTRO
12 groovesFIAFES15+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shady Lady - 1975?

130 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 Shady Lady - 1975 hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Shady Lady - 1975?

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 42 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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