The Shadow Hunter · Angra

268 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 8:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
268
LENGTH
8:09
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 237-243 and 245-251 -- 5.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE SHADOW HUNTER · BAR 238
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 38, 45, 65, 80, 96, 105 and 31 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

268 bars across 27 sections: 166 keep time, 37 are fills, 10 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-64.

COUNT-IN
PART O
PART U
PART AJ
CHORUS
PART BV
PART CG
24 groovesAOATAXBV+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Shadow Hunter?

130 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 Shadow Hunter hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

268 bars, about 8:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 95 exercises over 36 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Shadow Hunter?

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 38, 45, 65, 80, 96, 105 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 268 BARS ANALYSED
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