Shissou · Last Alliance

140 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-33, 35-38 and 42-44, and 5 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SHISSOU · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 11, 18, 34, 39, 40, 41 and 28 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 39-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 13 sections: 74 keep time, 34 are fills, 3 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-33.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART R
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART W
PART Y
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesECYS1J+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shissou?

140 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 Shissou hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Shissou?

10 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 11, 18, 34, 39, 40, 41 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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