Waiting Silence · Angra

176 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 18 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
WAITING SILENCE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 67, 68 and 15 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 15-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 67-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 103-104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 12 sections: 120 keep time, 21 are fills, 15 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-50.

PART A
PART G
PART K
CHORUS
PART G
PART M
PART S
PART AH
OUTRO
11 groovesNSGAAH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Waiting Silence?

145 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 Waiting Silence hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 21 sittings, about 22 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 Waiting Silence?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 67, 68 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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