Silent Maelstrom · Necrophage

209 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 7:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
7:15
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23, 79-92 and 98, and 6 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SILENT MAELSTROM · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 67, 77, 131, 135, 151 and 10 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 131 · LANDS ON BAR 132

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 17 sections: 161 keep time, 16 are fills, 22 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART W
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
12 groovesAFWHD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silent Maelstrom?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Silent Maelstrom hard to play on drums?

48 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 7:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Maelstrom?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 67, 77, 131, 135, 151 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED
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