The Silent Life · Rivers Of Nihil

177 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 13-15 and 17-18, and 9 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE SILENT LIFE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 68 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 1-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 12 sections: 69 keep time, 74 are fills, 4 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

PART F
CHORUS
PART F
BREAK
PART AN
PART AO
PART AR
PART AV
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLFARAVS4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Silent Life?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Silent Life hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 6:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 23 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 Silent Life?

17 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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