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Silver Paper · Mountain

EXERCISE 15 OF 33
Groove L -- Part L
38 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silver Paper on drums

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

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-10, silence through bars 11-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28 and ride through bars 29-34, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|
HH |--x-x---x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Silver Paper -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- T, E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 19-40 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-62 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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