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Silhouette · Little Simz

Silhouette · Little Simz
EXERCISE 21 OF 21
Play the whole song with the record
117 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 140 BARS LIT
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAS6GS4H+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silhouette on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, silence through bars 57-62, hi-hat through bars 63-80, silence through bars 81-88, hi-hat through bars 89-96 and silence through bars 97-108, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-xxx-xx-xx-x-|x-o-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
SD |----x--x----x--x|-x--x--xx---x---|
BD |x-x-------x--x--|x-x------x-x-x--|
Silhouette -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-81 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 95-116 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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