Shame On A Nigga · System of a Down and Wu-Tang Clan

81 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-36, 45-51 and 69-76 -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SHAME ON A NIGGA · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 16, 24, 27, 28, 40 and 2 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 10 sections: 59 keep time, 8 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-67.

PART C
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJCOKN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shame On A Nigga?

120 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 Shame On A Nigga hard to play on drums?

60 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Shame On A Nigga?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 16, 24, 27, 28, 40 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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