Flash Of The Silverhammer · Bathory

101 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 17-19, and 8 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
FLASH OF THE SILVERHAMMER · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 100 and 101.

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 8 sections: 80 keep time, 2 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-96.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
4 groovesBDCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flash Of The Silverhammer?

112 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 Flash Of The Silverhammer hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Flash Of The Silverhammer?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 100 and 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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