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Silhouette Of A Dancer · Delain

EXERCISE 24 OF 75
Run B2 · Part B (bars 41-56)
117 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silhouette Of A Dancer on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72 and toms through bars 73-78, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x---------------|x-----x---------|
Silhouette Of A Dancer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- J, AH -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-98 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-76 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part E and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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