Silent Screams · Halford

201 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 7:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
7:03
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 113-123, 125-127 and 131, and 7 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
SILENT SCREAMS · BAR 114
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 58, 66, 70 and 31 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 13 sections: 122 keep time, 37 are fills, 23 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-24.

PART A
PART B
PART D
PART N
PART J
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAANJDA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silent Screams?

114 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 Screams hard to play on drums?

49 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 7:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Screams?

20 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 40, 48, 56, 58, 66, 70 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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