Silent Casualty · Scorn

58 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11, 13-15 and 17-18, and 2 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
SILENT CASUALTY · BARS 13-14
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 22 and 3 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 8 sections: 39 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-33.

PART C
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART O
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLCFOR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silent Casualty?

115 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 Silent Casualty hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Silent Casualty?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 22 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 58 BARS ANALYSED
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