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Shimmer · Fuel

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesES1S2CH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shimmer on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-30, toms through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-55, toms through bars 56-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-93.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-41, 43-45 and 60-62, and 5 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o--o----o---|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
T1 |--------------x-|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Shimmer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 34, 55 and 91.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-56 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-71 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Shimmer?

120 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 Shimmer hard to play on drums?

54 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Shimmer?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 34, 55 and 91.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED