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A Drowning Voice · Dödsrit

A Drowning Voice · Dödsrit
EXERCISE 6 OF 70
Groove N -- Part N
95 / 315 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART N
PART N
PART N
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBADS17NQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Drowning Voice on drums

315 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 7:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
315
LENGTH
7:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-76, toms through bars 77-81, silence through bars 82-88, hi-hat through bars 89-105 and snare through bars 106-112, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31, 33-45 and 47, and 4 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
A Drowning Voice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 32, 46, 48, 56, 63, 64 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-89 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 87-121 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 130-153 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Drowning Voice?

180 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 A Drowning Voice hard to play on drums?

64 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 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

315 bars, about 7:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 A Drowning Voice?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 32, 46, 48, 56, 63, 64 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 315 BARS ANALYSED