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We Are Shadows · Kittie

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 40 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART H
PART P
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDHPQM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Are Shadows on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58, snare through bars 59-62 and toms through bars 63-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxx---x--xx-x--|
We Are Shadows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-46 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-62 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 85-107 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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