Remove shadow in spite of quick drum sticks

[joea58592360]

I'm a bit of a beginner to After Effects and I'm setting myself challenges to try to work through in order to learn how everything works. I'm trying to remove the shadows on a clip of a drummer in an infinity studio but the drum sticks moving quickly over it are causing a lot of problems in either rotoscoping or motion traicking, and the shadow is a bit intense for any of my (admittedly amateur) attempts at colour correcting it out with a luma matte to work. Any ideas?

[A.I.1]

Maybe the "change to colour" or similar effect on an adjustment layer with a mask that is around where the shadow is?

[joea58592360]

It seems to cause some odd tinting to the wall behind that makes the masked area not match the rest of the wall - am I doing something wrong with 'change to colour'? And this would work regardless of the drumsticks if it's pure colour, right?

[Roland Kahlenberg]

The latest tutorial from mocha covers a very similar object removal issue.

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[Dave Merchant]

The shadow looks flat, so don't bother trying to remove it. Just correct the rest of the wall to match.