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If We Speak Quietly · Lower Definition

If We Speak Quietly · Lower Definition
EXERCISE 22 OF 55
Groove M -- Part M (a two-bar phrase)
81 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART M
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
PART M
PART Q
PART S
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBSVFM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If We Speak Quietly on drums

129 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-34, snare through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-42, snare through bars 43-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-96, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 20 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxx-xxx-----xxx-|
If We Speak Quietly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 28, 30, 34, 36, 48 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- A, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-71 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is If We Speak Quietly?

157 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 If We Speak Quietly hard to play on drums?

62 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 If We Speak Quietly?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 28, 30, 34, 36, 48 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED