Silent Jealousy ('92 Live) · X-Japan

220 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34, and 22 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 187 BPM
SILENT JEALOUSY ('92 LIVE) · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 40 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 17-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

220 bars across 16 sections: 134 keep time, 46 are fills, 4 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 156-172.

COUNT-IN
PART L
PART L
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART AB
PART S
PART I
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHLSIAB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silent Jealousy ('92 Live)?

187 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 Jealousy ('92 Live) hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Jealousy ('92 Live)?

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED
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