ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SHALLOW on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 145 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 90
LENGTH: 2:28
DIFFICULTY: 63/100

toms through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-18, hi-hat through bars 19-21, toms through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-47 and silence through bars 48-50, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-9 and 11-13 -- 7.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7                                                8
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x--------x--------x-----|------------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--------------------------|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--------------|

SHALLOW -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 14, 20 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part G and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 19-32 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part S and Part W -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part W and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is SHALLOW?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

63 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 SHALLOW?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 14, 20 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED