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Shake It · Metro Station

Shake It · Metro Station
EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 17 PASSED · 64 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDCEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shake It on drums

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

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-108.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Shake It -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-48 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

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