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The Return (Tab) · Shadow Of Intent

EXERCISE 1 OF 73
Groove M -- Chorus
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PART S1
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART O
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
11 groovesMOETY+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Return (Tab) on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
79/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-27, snare through bars 28-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-51, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 60-66 and 92, and 5 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Return (Tab) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 15, 25, 26, 27, 31, 35 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part S1 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-100 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-39 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-60 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Return (Tab)?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Return (Tab) hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 The Return (Tab)?

18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 15, 25, 26, 27, 31, 35 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED