Shallow · Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper

45 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 1:53 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Pop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-43 -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
SHALLOW · BAR 33
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 30 and 32.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 4 sections: 16 keep time, 3 are fills, 18 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-45.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesS2ICS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shallow?

96 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 Shallow hard to play on drums?

36 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Shallow?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 30 and 32.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 45 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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