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Shocker · Stray From The Path

EXERCISE 15 OF 43
3-bar fill at bar 30 and 2 more
51 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shocker on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, snare through bars 27-37, toms through bars 38-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-69, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x-------|-----x--x---x-xx|
T2 |----------------|----------x--x--|
BD |x-----xx--xxx---|--xxx-xx---x----|
Shocker -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- I -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-88 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part S10 and Part AF -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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