Silence Follows Dismemberment fixed · Gorgasm

104 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 9 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
SILENCE FOLLOWS DISMEMBERMENT FIXED · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 34, 36, 38, 72, 80 and 3 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 14 sections: 74 keep time and 9 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
PART O
PART S
PART X
OUTRO
8 groovesCEGXA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silence Follows Dismemberment fixed?

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

Is Silence Follows Dismemberment fixed hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Silence Follows Dismemberment fixed?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 34, 36, 38, 72, 80 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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