What A Shame · Shinedown

135 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-24 and 52-66 -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
WHAT A SHAME · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 29, 33, 51, 71, 75 and 7 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 86-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 12 sections: 48 keep time, 13 are fills, 58 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-17.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHCFLS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What A Shame?

138 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 What A Shame hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in What A Shame?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 29, 33, 51, 71, 75 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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