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The Sounds Of Silence · Simon & Garfunkel

EXERCISE 6 OF 9
Groove H
51 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Sounds Of Silence on drums

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

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-71 and silence through bars 72-74.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED