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Silent Screams · Halford

Silent Screams · Halford
EXERCISE 6 OF 80
Groove J -- Part J
62 / 201 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART Q
PART A
PART B
PART D
PART J
PART N
PART Q
PART J
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAANJDA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silent Screams on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
7:03
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-56, hi-hat through bars 57-78, ride through bars 79-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-104, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    114
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Silent Screams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AA, N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-70 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 88-113 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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