Taklamakan · Silencer

294 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 8:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
294
LENGTH
8:24
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 17 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TAKLAMAKAN · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 15, 28, 32, 36, 44 and 28 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

294 bars across 16 sections: 230 keep time, 36 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 236-294.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART R
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFADKAAI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Taklamakan?

140 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 Taklamakan hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

294 bars, about 8:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Taklamakan?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 15, 28, 32, 36, 44 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 294 BARS ANALYSED
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