Shut Me Down · Godflesh

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 25-28 and 49-56 -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
SHUT ME DOWN · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 32 and 64.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 15 sections: 63 keep time, 3 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

INTRO
VERSE
PART F
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesABDFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shut Me Down?

88 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 Shut Me Down hard to play on drums?

54 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Shut Me Down?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 32 and 64.

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