Silhouette Of A Dancer · Delain

177 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 57-63, and 1 more place -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
SILHOUETTE OF A DANCER · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 35 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 15 sections: 83 keep time, 41 are fills, 28 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-53.

PART J
PART B
PART J
PART E
PART Q
PART H
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAHJBEAE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silhouette Of A Dancer?

136 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 Of A Dancer hard to play on drums?

61 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 Silhouette Of A Dancer?

17 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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