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Silvera · Gojira

EXERCISE 10 OF 41
Groove J
81 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART P
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDABLPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silvera 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.

76 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
76/100

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 15 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    72
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Silvera -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 45, 93, 94, 103, 108 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-27 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part A and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Silvera?

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 hard to play on drums?

76 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 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 45, 93, 94, 103, 108 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED