When The Stillness Comes · Slayer

155 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 7:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
7:16
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-59 and 79-83 -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
WHEN THE STILLNESS COMES · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 19 sections: 114 keep time and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-130.

BREAK
PART I
PART W
PART I
PART W
PART S15
CHORUS 3
PART BG
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAIWS4BO+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When The Stillness Comes?

85 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 When The Stillness Comes hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 7:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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.

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