Silent Lucidity · Queensrÿche

76 bars, 4:13, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-15 and 53-55, and 2 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
SILENT LUCIDITY · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 20, 22, 23, 24, 31 and 11 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 11 sections: 42 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-15.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBKMFR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silent Lucidity?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Silent Lucidity hard to play on drums?

52 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Lucidity?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 20, 22, 23, 24, 31 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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