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Shady Lady - 1975 · Uriah Heep

EXERCISE 20 OF 67
Groove M
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CHORUS
PART I
PART E
PART I
PART E
PART AF
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
12 groovesFIAFES15+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shady Lady - 1975 on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-21, silence through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-45, snare through bars 46-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|
Shady Lady - 1975 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- I, F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-21 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 79-89 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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