ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Quiet on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 100 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 90
LENGTH: 3:29
DIFFICULTY: 79/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-38 and ride through bars 39-45, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-25, 39-45 and 52-57, and 2 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    19                               20
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-----------x-------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |----------------x---x---x---x-x-|x---x---x---x-x-x---x---x-------|
HH |--------------------------------|--o-----------------------------|
SD |----f---f---------g-----x-------|--------x---------g-----x---x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-----------|x---x-x---------x---x-x---x-----|

Quiet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 18, 26, 34, 38, 46 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 9-30 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part E and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 33-39 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Quiet?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Quiet hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Quiet?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 18, 26, 34, 38, 46 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED