Siva · Smashing Pumpkins

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-80 and 82-97 -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 109 BPM
SIVA · BAR 82
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 20, 24, 31, 45, 47 and 6 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 13 sections: 79 keep time, 12 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-97.

PART F
PART J
PART F
PART T
PART W
PART AI
PART AR
CHORUS
PART AY
OUTRO
12 groovesAWAIFWAY+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Siva?

109 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 Siva hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Siva?

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 20, 24, 31, 45, 47 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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