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Shot Me Down In Flames · Sweet

EXERCISE 5 OF 42
Groove F
85 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART C
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
9 groovesEKHCS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shot Me Down In Flames on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-125, snare through bars 126-130 and hi-hat through bars 131-135.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-20, 22-28 and 30-35, and 9 more places -- 48.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Shot Me Down In Flames -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 88, 91, 92, 118 and 135.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Bars 14-37 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 37-84 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 71-132 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 85-121 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 85-109 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Chorus 5 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shot Me Down In Flames?

126 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 Shot Me Down In Flames hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Shot Me Down In Flames?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 29, 88, 91, 92, 118 and 135.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED