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The Closing · Silverchair

EXERCISE 30 OF 34
4-bar fill at bar 86
75 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Closing on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34, ride through bars 35-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-98.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-38 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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