ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shake on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 82
LENGTH: 2:44
DIFFICULTY: 71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-19, toms through bars 20-23, hi-hat through bars 24-26, toms through bars 27-31, hi-hat through bars 32-42 and toms through bars 43-52, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-47, 49-51 and 75-77, and 1 more place -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45                                               46
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------x-----------x-----------------------------|------x-----------x-----------------------------|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----------------------------|
T1 |---x-----------x-----------x-----x--------------|x--x--------x--x--------------x--x--------------|
T2 |------------------------------------x-x-x-------|------------------------------------x-x-x-------|
FT |------------------------------------------x-----|------------------------------------------x-x-x-|
BD |x-----------x-----------------------------x-----|x-----------x-----------x--x--------------------|

Shake -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 29-45 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
and 7 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Shake?

120 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 Shake hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Shake?

5 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED