Silent Hill · Akira Yamaoka

128 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-63, 65-67 and 69-71, and 13 more places -- 85.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 188 BPM
SILENT HILL · BAR 17
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 2 sections: 112 keep time and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-128.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silent Hill?

188 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 Silent Hill hard to play on drums?

46 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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