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Shiroyama · Sabaton

EXERCISE 10 OF 55
Groove E
79 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART V
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAHKVR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shiroyama on drums

144 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-33, ride through bars 34-42, hi-hat through bars 43-75, ride through bars 76-84, hi-hat through bars 85-109 and toms through bars 110-117, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-5 and 9, and 17 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 17, 42, 50, 59, 84 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-56 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-43 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-86 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shiroyama?

171 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Shiroyama hard to play on drums?

56 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 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 Shiroyama?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 17, 42, 50, 59, 84 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED