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Silvera - Drop C Tuning · Gojira

EXERCISE 3 OF 37
Groove B -- Part B
41 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silvera - Drop C Tuning on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-21, snare through bars 22-28, hi-hat through bars 29-34 and ride through bars 35-38, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-----------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Silvera - Drop C Tuning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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