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Such A Shame · Talk Talk

EXERCISE 13 OF 16
Run D2 · Verse 2 (bars 50-110)
102 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 61 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE 2
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
5 groovesDBCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Such A Shame on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-18, hi-hat through bars 19-36, toms through bars 37-50, hi-hat through bars 51-67 and silence through bars 68-69, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Such A Shame -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-18 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED