The Sound Of Silence · Emilíana Torrini

51 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
51
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-20, 23-35 and 38-51 -- 87.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
THE SOUND OF SILENCE · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 21.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 3 sections: 44 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-51.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
3 groovesDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sound Of Silence?

92 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 Sound Of Silence hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

51 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sound Of Silence?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 21.

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