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Shangri-la · Electric Light Orchestra

EXERCISE 23 OF 29
Run M1 · Part M (bars 169-180)
198 / 213 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S5
PART M
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGMS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shangri-la on drums

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.

39 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
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
39/100

hi-hat through bars 2-120, ride through bars 121-126, hi-hat through bars 127-133, toms through bars 134-135, ride through bars 136-138 and hi-hat through bars 139-146, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 117-168 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 133-176 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 169-213 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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