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What A Shame · Shinedown

EXERCISE 9 OF 39
Groove E
62 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What A Shame on drums

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.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-29, ride through bars 30-43, kick and crashes through bars 44-51, hi-hat through bars 52-71 and ride through bars 72-87, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|----x-----------|
What A Shame -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 29, 33, 51, 71, 75 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 -- C, F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 28-52 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-110 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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