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Silverfuck · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove R -- Chorus
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0 / 49 PASSED · 96 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART E
PART C
PART E
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
10 groovesRCELS11+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Silverfuck on drums

236 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 7:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
7:19
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-23, hi-hat through bars 24-28, toms through bars 29-52, hi-hat through bars 53-59 and snare through bars 60-72, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-193 -- 45.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    98
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Silverfuck -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 25, 26, 27, 28, 56 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- R, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-57 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-65 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 77-101 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 98-222 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Silverfuck?

131 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 Silverfuck hard to play on drums?

58 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

236 bars, about 7:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Silverfuck?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 25, 26, 27, 28, 56 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 236 BARS ANALYSED