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Silk In The Strings · Box Of Spirits

EXERCISE 10 OF 46
Groove H
45 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silk In The Strings on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49, snare through bars 50-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-73, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x--x--x--x--xx|
Silk In The Strings -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- S, R -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-92 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-51 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part V -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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