Your Sword Versus My Dagger · Silverstein

186 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-8, 13-19 and 21-27, and 7 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 250 BPM
YOUR SWORD VERSUS MY DAGGER · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 28, 38, 44, 60, 68 and 6 more.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 11 sections: 102 keep time, 12 are fills and 59 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART M
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCMBOFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Your Sword Versus My Dagger?

250 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Your Sword Versus My Dagger hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Your Sword Versus My Dagger?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 28, 38, 44, 60, 68 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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