Silver Lining · Stiff Little Fingers

123 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 240 BPM, 3:05 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Punk150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 8 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 240 BPM
SILVER LINING · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 37, 53, 61 and 73.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 11 sections: 56 keep time, 5 are fills, 5 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-32.

PART C
PART B
PART E
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS11CBEF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silver Lining?

240 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Silver Lining hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Silver Lining?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 37, 53, 61 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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