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The Burning Shadows Of Silence · Emperor

EXERCISE 1 OF 84
Groove S -- Part S
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0 / 84 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, OUTRO
PART I
PART S
PART AE
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
13 groovesQSIS19AE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Burning Shadows Of Silence on drums

201 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
87/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-41, silence through bars 42-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-64, 129-135 and 137-139, and 3 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Burning Shadows Of Silence -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- S -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 4-17 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 7-29 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 17-60 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Burning Shadows Of Silence?

170 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 The Burning Shadows Of Silence hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 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 The Burning Shadows Of Silence?

24 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED