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Shun The Limelight · Bloodred Hourglass

Shun The Limelight · Bloodred Hourglass
EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove B -- Part B
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART B
PART S5
PART I
PART B
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART S10
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEBIS2S10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shun The Limelight on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-86, toms through bars 87-88, snare through bars 89-97, silence through bars 98-112 and snare through bars 113-129.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Shun The Limelight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 32, 56, 58, 60, 62 and 10 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part S5 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-80 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 77-92 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 95-124 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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