Shake It · Metro Station

108 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-44 and 61-108 -- 61.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SHAKE IT · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 6 sections: 100 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-108.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDCEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shake It?

150 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 Shake It hard to play on drums?

56 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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