Silk In The Strings · Box Of Spirits

99 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38-39, and 8 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
SILK IN THE STRINGS · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 20 and 16 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 10 sections: 59 keep time, 22 are fills, 11 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-39.

CHORUS
PART C
PART S
PART V
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesASVCS9+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silk In The Strings?

138 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 Silk In The Strings hard to play on drums?

58 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Silk In The Strings?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 20 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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