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Promise Silent Hill 2 · Akira Yamaoka

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove C -- Part C
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PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Promise Silent Hill 2 on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
57/100

ride through bars 2-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 20 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxx--x-x-------|
Promise Silent Hill 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 12, 36, 48, 56, 57 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-76 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Promise Silent Hill 2?

87 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 Promise Silent Hill 2 hard to play on drums?

57 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?

84 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Promise Silent Hill 2?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 12, 36, 48, 56, 57 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED