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Shameful Metaphors · Chevelle

EXERCISE 10 OF 26
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 29-31)
101 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHBLS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shameful Metaphors on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49, silence through bars 50-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-68, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-24 and 53-68 -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-------------|x---------------|
Shameful Metaphors -- 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 26, 30, 70, 74, 104 and 112.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-74 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Shameful Metaphors?

135 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 Shameful Metaphors hard to play on drums?

47 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Shameful Metaphors?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 26, 30, 70, 74, 104 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED