Silhouette · Little Simz

140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 5:50 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1, 3-7 and 9-15, and 10 more places -- 67.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
SILHOUETTE · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 139 and 140.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 139-140 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 10 sections: 107 keep time, 2 are fills and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-56.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
7 groovesAS6GS4H+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silhouette?

96 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 Silhouette hard to play on drums?

56 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, 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 Silhouette?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 139 and 140.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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