Such A Shame · Talk Talk

114 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-33, 51-65 and 70-83, and 2 more places -- 61.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
SUCH A SHAME · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 8 sections: 101 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-109.

CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
5 groovesDBCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Such A Shame?

112 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 Such A Shame hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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