The Sounds Of Silence · Simon & Garfunkel

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 24-26 and 28, and 6 more places -- 78.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 3 sections: 56 keep time and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-71.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Sounds Of Silence?

95 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 Sounds 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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