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Shhh · Prince

EXERCISE 14 OF 68
Groove P -- Part P
142 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART AT
10 groovesRATPEH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shhh on drums

207 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-61, ride through bars 62-64, hi-hat through bars 65-150 and toms through bars 151-161, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-25, 27-28 and 30-48, and 16 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    23
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------r-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
Shhh -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- R, AA -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part P and Part AT -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 22-96 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shhh?

130 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 Shhh hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 6:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Shhh?

16 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED