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Shake Your Tail · My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

EXERCISE 19 OF 26
Join Part I to Chorus 2 (bars 42-44)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS 2
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEBCFH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shake Your Tail on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 1:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 2-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 44-47 and 52-66 -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 67.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-21 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-43 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-67 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Shake Your Tail?

142 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 Your Tail hard to play on drums?

58 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Shake Your Tail?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED