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Shut Me Down · Godflesh

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove A -- Intro
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INTRO
VERSE
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesABDFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shut Me Down on drums

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

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
54/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-32, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A, D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-21 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-42 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED