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Man On The Silver Mountain · Rainbow

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Man On The Silver Mountain on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-123.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-x-----|
Man On The Silver Mountain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-23 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-77 -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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