Silent Scream · Slayer

140 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-45, 48-49 and 53-54, and 14 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 196 BPM
SILENT SCREAM · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 25 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 8 sections: 90 keep time, 31 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-72.

PART B
PART K
PART M
CHORUS
PART M
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesQMBADKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silent Scream?

196 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 Scream hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Scream?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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