Silvera - Drop C Tuning · Gojira

117 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 17 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SILVERA - DROP C TUNING · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 45, 103, 108, 115 and 116.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 115-116 · LANDS ON BAR 117 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 93 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-40.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART O
PART A
OUTRO
5 groovesDBOAKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silvera - Drop C Tuning?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Silvera - Drop C Tuning hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

117 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 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 Silvera - Drop C Tuning?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 45, 103, 108, 115 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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