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Devoid · Unwound

EXERCISE 26 OF 31
Fill at bar 97 (a small one)
95 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devoid on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-95 and snare through bars 96-102.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-30 and 46-62 -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x-------|----------------|
HH |------------o---|o---o---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|------x-----x-xx|
T1 |xx--------------|----------------|
T2 |--xx------------|----------------|
BD |----x-x-------x-|--x-------x-----|
Devoid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 33, 37, 41, 65, 67, 69 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 29-67 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-76 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Devoid?

128 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 Devoid hard to play on drums?

43 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Devoid?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 33, 37, 41, 65, 67, 69 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED