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Quiet Little Voices · We Were Promised Jetpacks

Quiet Little Voices · We Were Promised Jetpacks
EXERCISE 6 OF 37
Groove C -- Part C
100 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKECS1H+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Quiet Little Voices on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
83/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-63, snare through bars 64-80, hi-hat through bars 81-95, snare through bars 96-129 and silence through bars 130-132, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxoo-xooxxoo-xoo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |----x-------x---|
Quiet Little Voices -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Verse -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-84 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 96-129 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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