Shapeshifter · Hum

190 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 8:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
8:10
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 117-118, 127-130 and 135-142, and 2 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
SHAPESHIFTER · BAR 118
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 57, 58, 59, 71, 72 and 6 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 57-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 71-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 79-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 18 sections: 141 keep time, 12 are fills, 11 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 160-190.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCTDVS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shapeshifter?

93 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 Shapeshifter hard to play on drums?

42 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 8:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Shapeshifter?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 57, 58, 59, 71, 72 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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