Silver Leaves · Wintersun

235 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 75 BPM, 9:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
9:56
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69-84, 122-136 and 138-140, and 6 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
SILVER LEAVES · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 68, 121, 137, 141, 145, 147 and 29 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 121 · LANDS ON BAR 122
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 137 · LANDS ON BAR 138
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 141 · LANDS ON BAR 142 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

235 bars across 15 sections: 132 keep time, 35 are fills and 54 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-91.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART S4
CHORUS
PART I
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AH
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
13 groovesCS2BCS4AH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silver Leaves?

75 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Silver Leaves hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

235 bars, about 9:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 19 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 Silver Leaves?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 68, 121, 137, 141, 145, 147 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 235 BARS ANALYSED
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