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Shissou · Last Alliance
EXERCISE 10 OF 47
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 17-19)
70 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shissou on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-87, kick and crashes through bars 88-89, silence through bars 90-96, hi-hat through bars 97-135 and toms through bars 136-137, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-55 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-70 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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