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Shot · Blade and Bath

EXERCISE 17 OF 40
Run C2 · Chorus 2 (bars 37-42)
83 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shot on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-7 and hi-hat through bars 8-117.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Shot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-61 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-101 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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