Silence Speaks · While She Sleeps

208 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 4:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-53, 61-62 and 69-71, and 3 more places -- 7.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 186 BPM
SILENCE SPEAKS · BARS 51-52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 17, 18, 22 and 20 more.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 20 sections: 83 keep time, 26 are fills, 57 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-125.

PART F
PART K
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S17
PART AK
OUTRO 2
16 groovesYS17FAPK+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silence Speaks?

186 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 Silence Speaks hard to play on drums?

54 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Silence Speaks?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 17, 18, 22 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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