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Flash Of The Silverhammer · Bathory

EXERCISE 12 OF 19
Join Part C to Outro (bars 62-64)
98 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
4 groovesBDCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flash Of The Silverhammer on drums

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

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-32, ride through bars 33-39, hi-hat through bars 40-56 and ride through bars 57-96, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Flash Of The Silverhammer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-63 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-31 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 60-101 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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