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Shake The Dust · Switchfoot

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove F -- Chorus 3
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0 / 46 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shake The Dust on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-28, hi-hat through bars 29-42 and toms through bars 43-56, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|
Shake The Dust -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- F, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-46 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-68 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 80-92 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 92-118 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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