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The Shadowing · Orbit Culture

EXERCISE 20 OF 28
Run B3 · Chorus 3 (bars 51-70)
78 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S8
BREAK 2
BREAK 4
BREAK 6
9 groovesBES8QS10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Shadowing on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 3-26, hi-hat through bars 27-31, snare through bars 32-65, toms through bars 66-67, snare through bars 68-76 and silence through bars 77-118.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 12 and 14, and 3 more places -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 33, 34, 50, 66, 67, 68 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, E -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-51 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-95 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Shadowing?

140 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 The Shadowing hard to play on drums?

52 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Shadowing?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 33, 34, 50, 66, 67, 68 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED