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sound and silence · Dead Poet Society

EXERCISE 17 OF 40
Fill at bar 31, 61 and 63
41 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play sound and silence on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-16, silence through bars 17-20 and ride through bars 21-43, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------X---------------X-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
sound and silence -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-17 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-30 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-39 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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