Shun The Limelight · Bloodred Hourglass

129 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 33-39, and 6 more places -- 46.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
SHUN THE LIMELIGHT · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 32, 56, 58, 60, 62 and 10 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 13 sections: 32 keep time, 16 are fills, 44 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-96.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART B
PART I
PART B
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART S10
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEBIS2S10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shun The Limelight?

170 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 Shun The Limelight hard to play on drums?

52 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Shun The Limelight?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 32, 56, 58, 60, 62 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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