We Are Shadows · Kittie

121 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13, and 13 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
WE ARE SHADOWS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 20, 30, 33, 34 and 21 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 11 sections: 77 keep time, 27 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART P
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDHPQM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Are Shadows?

136 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 We Are Shadows hard to play on drums?

58 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 We Are Shadows?

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 20, 30, 33, 34 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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