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Through Shadows · Born Of Osiris

EXERCISE 14 OF 81
Groove H
90 / 197 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART L
PART D
PART R
PART AP
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAGDLAPR+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Through Shadows on drums

197 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-9, silence through bars 10-16, snare through bars 17-33, hi-hat through bars 34-43 and snare through bars 44-65, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44, 46-48 and 50-52, and 28 more places -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|
Through Shadows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 41, 43, 57, 73, 82, 86 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- R, S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-17 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Break 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Through Shadows?

152 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 Through Shadows hard to play on drums?

59 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Through Shadows?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 41, 43, 57, 73, 82, 86 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED