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"Shape Of You" · Ed Sheeran

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove C -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Shape Of You" on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---xx--x-|
"Shape Of You" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-12 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-29 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-37 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-49 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part H -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED