Quiet Little Voices · We Were Promised Jetpacks

177 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 33-39, and 5 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 174 BPM
QUIET LITTLE VOICES · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 15 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 11 sections: 104 keep time, 23 are fills, 32 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKECS1H+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Quiet Little Voices?

174 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 Quiet Little Voices hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Quiet Little Voices?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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