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Silver Springs · Fleetwood Mac

EXERCISE 31 OF 41
Groove W -- Part W
82 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silver Springs on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-97.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C, F -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 75-84 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 82-94 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED