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Silver SSD · DAGames

EXERCISE 4 OF 74
Groove R
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PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART AD
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 5
13 groovesBAXEADK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silver SSD on drums

176 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-24, toms through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-42 and snare through bars 43-47, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 5-7 and 12, and 20 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
Silver SSD -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 25, 26, 39, 46, 51 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AX -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Silver SSD?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Silver SSD hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Silver SSD?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 25, 26, 39, 46, 51 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED