sound and silence · Dead Poet Society

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 36, and 4 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
SOUND AND SILENCE · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 10, 14, 24, 29, 31, 35 and 13 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 10 sections: 33 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART A
PART I
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKIAEAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is sound and silence?

90 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 sound and silence hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 sound and silence?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 10, 14, 24, 29, 31, 35 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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