The Greatest View (V2) · Silverchair

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 42-44, and 5 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 83 BPM
THE GREATEST VIEW (V2) · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 21 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 10 sections: 44 keep time, 27 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-80.

PART A
PART J
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMAJRW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Greatest View (V2)?

83 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 Greatest View (V2) hard to play on drums?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 The Greatest View (V2)?

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 21 more.

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