Shoots · acloudyskye

144 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 33-39, and 9 more places -- 53.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SHOOTS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 64, 80, 128 and 144.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 8 sections: 128 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-95.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
4 groovesACHS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shoots?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Shoots hard to play on drums?

51 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 Shoots?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 32, 64, 80, 128 and 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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