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Through The Shadows · 870621345

EXERCISE 28 OF 79
Fill at bar 68 (a small one)
92 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART Z
PART AB
PART P
8 groovesGKPABZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Through The Shadows on drums

158 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24 and snare through bars 25-26, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 40, and 6 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---------x-|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|--x---x-x---x---|
Through The Shadows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, K -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-43 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-60 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Through The Shadows?

200 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 Through The Shadows hard to play on drums?

63 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Through The Shadows?

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED