Siberian Kiss · Glassjaw

162 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48, 56 and 59-73, and 10 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 178 BPM
SIBERIAN KISS · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 7, 10, 15, 31, 34 and 9 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 12 sections: 93 keep time, 15 are fills and 36 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-146.

PART C
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKCGTN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Siberian Kiss?

178 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Siberian Kiss hard to play on drums?

53 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Siberian Kiss?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 7, 10, 15, 31, 34 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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