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Silence Speaks · While She Sleeps

EXERCISE 1 OF 79
Groove V -- Part V (a two-bar phrase)
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PART F
PART K
PART V
CHORUS
PART V
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART S17
PART AK
OUTRO 2
16 groovesYS17FAPK+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silence Speaks on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, snare through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50, snare through bars 51-76 and silence through bars 77-80, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51               52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-x-|
SD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
Silence Speaks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- V, Y -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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