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Shapeshifter · Hum

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove T -- Part T
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART T
PART T
PART T
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCTDVS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shapeshifter on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
8:10
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-25, snare through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-51, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    118
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Shapeshifter -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- T, C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-41 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-82 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 84-101 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 4 and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 121-131 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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