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Silver Lining · Stiff Little Fingers

Silver Lining · Stiff Little Fingers
EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove B -- Part B
0 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART B, PART E
PART C
PART B
PART E
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silver Lining on drums

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

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
41/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-82 and silence through bars 83-123.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |----------------------x-|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |----x-------x---x-----x-|
Silver Lining -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-68 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-75 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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