← SONGS

Silver Swarm · Thornhill

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove A -- Chorus
0 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, PART D
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silver Swarm on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, snare through bars 45-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-64 and silence through bars 65-68, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--xx-xx--x-x|
Silver Swarm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- A, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-33 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-73 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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