Shelter · Miyavi

111 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
23/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-32, 34-45 and 61-65, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
SHELTER · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108 and 2 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 103-110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 11 sections: 49 keep time, 8 are fills, 35 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-32.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesECIS1G+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shelter?

136 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 hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many limbs land on the same note. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Shelter?

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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