Silver Paper · Mountain

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-36, 62-68 and 74 -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
SILVER PAPER · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 4, 7, 26, 28, 30 and 14 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 10 sections: 34 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-68.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART H
BREAK 2
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesES8HTAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silver Paper?

92 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 Silver Paper hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Paper?

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 4, 7, 26, 28, 30 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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