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EXERCISE 5 OF 40
4-bar fill at bar 1
73 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART I
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesMJITFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Walking In The Shadow on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-12, snare through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-45 and snare through bars 46-47, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 20-29 and 53-62, and 1 more place -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Walking In The Shadow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- J, M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part I and Part J -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-52 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-99 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Walking In The Shadow?

120 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 Walking In The Shadow hard to play on drums?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 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 Walking In The Shadow?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED