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Shock Me · KISS

EXERCISE 5 OF 46
2-bar fill at bar 57
49 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBABVCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shock Me on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-63, ride through bars 64-79, hi-hat through bars 80-87, toms through bars 88-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-97, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 9 and 13, and 13 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 20, 21, 31, 32, 33 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B, V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-83 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shock Me?

127 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 Shock Me hard to play on drums?

64 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Shock Me?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 20, 21, 31, 32, 33 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED