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Shy Away · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shy Away on drums

138 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, snare through bars 57-60, hi-hat through bars 61-130, snare through bars 131-134 and hi-hat through bars 135-138.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 15 more places -- 75.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 88, 89, 91, 92, 98, 122 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-64 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Shy Away?

193 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 Shy Away hard to play on drums?

59 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?

138 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Shy Away?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 88, 89, 91, 92, 98, 122 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED