Shangri-la · Electric Light Orchestra

213 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-32 and 34-36, and 8 more places -- 62.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SHANGRI-LA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 93, 125, 133, 134, 135, 167 and 1 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 133-135 · LANDS ON BAR 136 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 167 · LANDS ON BAR 168
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 173 · LANDS ON BAR 174
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

213 bars across 10 sections: 157 keep time, 7 are fills, 29 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-92.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S5
PART M
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGMS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shangri-la?

160 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Shangri-la hard to play on drums?

39 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Shangri-la?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 93, 125, 133, 134, 135, 167 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED
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