Shimmy · System of a Down

54 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 1:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-17 and 24-30 -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
SHIMMY · BARS 11-12
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 18, 19, 31, 32 and 54.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 54
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 10 sections: 30 keep time, 5 are fills, 7 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-17.

PART B
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJFBND+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shimmy?

118 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 Shimmy hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Shimmy?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 18, 19, 31, 32 and 54.

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