Shot · Blade and Bath

117 bars, 6:14, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-24 and 35, and 6 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
SHOT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 32, 36, 44, 56, 69 and 3 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 69-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 11 sections: 85 keep time, 9 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-99.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCNOER+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shot?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Shot hard to play on drums?

56 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 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 Shot?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 32, 36, 44, 56, 69 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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