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Silent Circus · Mika Sogl

Silent Circus · Mika Sogl
EXERCISE 1 OF 88
Groove CM -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
PART AM
PART Y
PART S14
OUTRO
BREAK
13 groovesCMS16YAMB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 12
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silent Circus on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
444
LENGTH
7:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-42, ride through bars 43-50, snare through bars 51-55, toms through bars 56-57, ride through bars 58-62 and toms through bars 63-64, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    248          249
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
RD |x---x---x---|x---x---x---|
HH |------g-----|------g-----|
SD |------------|r-----------|
BD |g-----------|------------|
Silent Circus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- CM, CL -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part Y -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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