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Shame · System of a Down

EXERCISE 8 OF 27
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 7-9)
38 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCLIKB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shame on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 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
80
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44 and snare through bars 45-52, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-19 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 27, 28 and 44.

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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-40 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-77 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Shame?

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 Shame hard to play on drums?

59 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Shame?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 27, 28 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED