Silverwing · Arch Enemy

181 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-67, 72-79 and 111-114, and 4 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
SILVERWING · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 25 sections: 137 keep time, 1 is a fill, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-162.

PART R
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
9 groovesOFIRP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Silverwing?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Silverwing hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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