Man On The Silver Mountain · Rainbow

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 20-23, and 21 more places -- 59.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
MAN ON THE SILVER MOUNTAIN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 12, 24, 27, 35, 47 and 5 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 8 sections: 103 keep time, 11 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-123.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Man On The Silver Mountain?

108 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 Man On The Silver Mountain hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Man On The Silver Mountain?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 12, 24, 27, 35, 47 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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