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Shape of you · Marcin

Shape of you · Marcin
EXERCISE 14 OF 29
Groove O -- Outro 2
50 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART I
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBIS6AO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shape of you on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 3-17, hi-hat through bars 18-20, toms through bars 21-32, silence through bars 33-44, snare through bars 45-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-52, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 16-17 and 45, and 4 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    73
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
SD |------------x-----------x-------------------x-----------x-------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
Shape of you -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 85.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- I, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-23 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 23-54 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-73 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shape of you?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED