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Shakin' · Eddie Money

EXERCISE 4 OF 23
Fill at bar 16 and 32
65 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDAHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shakin' on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, toms through bars 31-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 33-39 and 41-47, and 3 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x-x-x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-g---x---x---x-|x-----x---x---x-|
Shakin' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 32, 63, 64, 72 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-65 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Shakin'?

113 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 Shakin' hard to play on drums?

51 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Shakin'?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 32, 63, 64, 72 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED