Nigh To Silence · Erra

148 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 48, 56-57 and 95-96, and 4 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NIGH TO SILENCE · BARS 56-57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 30, 31 and 57 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 18-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 30-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 57-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 11 sections: 36 keep time, 63 are fills, 16 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-29.

COUNT-IN
PART G
PART O
CHORUS
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesQGALS1M+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nigh To Silence?

120 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 Nigh To Silence hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Nigh To Silence?

13 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 30, 31 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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