Shake The Dust · Switchfoot

148 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28, 43-48 and 71-79, and 2 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SHAKE THE DUST · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 64, 80, 116, 117, 125, 133 and 3 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 116-117 · LANDS ON BAR 118 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 125 · LANDS ON BAR 126 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 14 sections: 103 keep time, 9 are fills, 18 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-42.

PART D
PART E
PART G
PART E
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFGDEJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shake The Dust?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Shake The Dust hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Shake The Dust?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 64, 80, 116, 117, 125, 133 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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