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Silver Leaves · Wintersun

EXERCISE 21 OF 68
Join Part P to Chorus 2 (bars 120-122)
138 / 235 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silver Leaves on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
235
LENGTH
9:56
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-68, snare through bars 69-84, ride through bars 85-88, hi-hat through bars 89-111, ride through bars 112-113 and hi-hat through bars 114-121, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    69
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-----------x---|
Silver Leaves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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