Silver Springs · Fleetwood Mac

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 12 and 14, and 12 more places -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SILVER SPRINGS · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 23, 39, 43, 55, 69 and 6 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 8 sections: 73 keep time, 12 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-22.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART W
OUTRO
6 groovesCFYWAD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silver Springs?

90 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 Springs hard to play on drums?

43 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Springs?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 23, 39, 43, 55, 69 and 6 more.

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