Shocker · Stray From The Path

129 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29 and 33-34, and 9 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
SHOCKER · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31 and 41 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 13 sections: 37 keep time, 47 are fills, 19 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesICTS10S1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shocker?

145 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 Shocker hard to play on drums?

54 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?

129 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Shocker?

12 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 16, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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