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The Shower Scene · Brand New

EXERCISE 37 OF 52
Join Part O to Break 2 (bars 76-78)
89 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, BREAK 2
PART C
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART O
BREAK 2
PART S13
OUTRO
12 groovesGBCMS13+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Shower Scene on drums

103 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-69, snare through bars 70-73, hi-hat through bars 74-78, snare through bars 79-99 and silence through bars 100-103.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 8, and 15 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
The Shower Scene -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 17, 27, 29, 31, 41 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-23 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-61 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-82 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Shower Scene?

181 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Shower Scene hard to play on drums?

55 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.

How many fills are in The Shower Scene?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 17, 27, 29, 31, 41 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED