Silent Wars · Arch Enemy

160 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 33-39 and 61-67, and 1 more place -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SILENT WARS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 40, 41, 42 and 9 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 40-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 157-159 · LANDS ON BAR 160 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 17 sections: 123 keep time, 15 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-111.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART P
PART S
PART E
PART F
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCAFES+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silent Wars?

150 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 Wars hard to play on drums?

64 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Wars?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 40, 41, 42 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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