The Closing · Silverchair

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 43-49 and 90-96 -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 106 BPM
THE CLOSING · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33 and 14 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 106 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 9 sections: 52 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-70.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDFOS1J+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Closing?

106 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 The Closing hard to play on drums?

53 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Closing?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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