Silent Circus · Mika Sogl

444 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 210 BPM, 7:23 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
444
LENGTH
7:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 200, 208 and 216, and 11 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 210 BPM
SILENT CIRCUS · BARS 248-249
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 84 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 78 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 1-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

445 bars across 16 sections: 252 keep time, 84 are fills, 7 are stops and 78 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 249-310.

PART B
PART AM
PART Y
OUTRO
BREAK
13 groovesCMS16YAMB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silent Circus?

210 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Silent Circus hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

444 bars, about 7:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Silent Circus?

18 fills to learn, played 84 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 78 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 444 BARS ANALYSED
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