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Shotgun · Decalius

EXERCISE 7 OF 26
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
43 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shotgun on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 2-85, snare through bars 86-87 and kick and crashes through bars 88-91.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 7 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|
Shotgun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 37, 41 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 14-37 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Shotgun?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Shotgun hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Shotgun?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 37, 41 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED