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Suicidal Dream · Silverchair

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesETQOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suicidal Dream on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, kick and crashes through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-52, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-7, 10-16 and 18-20, and 8 more places -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|x-x-x-x-x-x-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|x-----x---x-----|
Suicidal Dream -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 21, 30, 35 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, Q -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-70 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Suicidal Dream?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Suicidal Dream hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Suicidal Dream?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 21, 30, 35 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED