Quiet · Smashing Pumpkins

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-25, 39-45 and 52-57, and 2 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
QUIET · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 18, 26, 34, 38, 46 and 10 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 11 sections: 57 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-70.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGEQCS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Quiet?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Quiet hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Quiet?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 18, 26, 34, 38, 46 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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