Silverkey · Blank

211 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:02 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
7:02
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-25, 28-33 and 36, and 24 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SILVERKEY · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 10 and 11.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

211 bars across 14 sections: 131 keep time, 2 are fills, 51 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 164-195.

PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S9
PART J
CHORUS 4
8 groovesGJS9ES7+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silverkey?

120 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 Silverkey hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 7:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Silverkey?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 10 and 11.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED
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