Smashed Into Pieces · Silverstein

144 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-15, 17-23 and 41-47, and 1 more place -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
SMASHED INTO PIECES · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 121 · LANDS ON BAR 122
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 11 sections: 106 keep time, 1 is a fill, 3 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-100.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesECKPS11+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Smashed Into Pieces?

185 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 Smashed Into Pieces hard to play on drums?

51 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Smashed Into Pieces?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.

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