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Shelter Me · Cinderella

EXERCISE 21 OF 28
Fill at bar 80 (a small one)
138 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDABHCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shelter Me on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-34, hi-hat through bars 35-73, snare through bars 74-80, hi-hat through bars 81-87, snare through bars 88-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-144.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 44-49 and 52, and 17 more places -- 51.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Shelter Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 80 and 104.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D, A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-105 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-76 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 4 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Shelter Me?

125 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 Shelter Me hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Shelter Me?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 80 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED