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Shanghai · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 4 OF 6
Run D1 · Outro (bars 6-38)
31 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesS3DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shanghai on drums

78 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 3:57 of playing on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
32/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-38 and silence through bars 39-78.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-17, 20-29 and 32, and 3 more places -- 72.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-x-----x-------x-|
Shanghai -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Shanghai?

160 BPM, in 8/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Shanghai hard to play on drums?

32 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED