Silver Swarm · Thornhill

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 4 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
SILVER SWARM · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 36 and 11 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 10 sections: 68 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART M
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAHDMR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silver Swarm?

105 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 Swarm hard to play on drums?

61 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Swarm?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 36 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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