"Shape Of You" · Ed Sheeran

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 25-27 and 29-31, and 7 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 96 BPM
"SHAPE OF YOU" · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 21, 22, 28, 32, 42 and 24 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 12 sections: 57 keep time, 30 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCHRAIE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Shape Of You"?

96 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 "Shape Of You" hard to play on drums?

56 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 "Shape Of You"?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 4, 21, 22, 28, 32, 42 and 24 more.

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