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Speak Life · Toby Mac

Speak Life · Toby Mac
EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove C -- Outro 2
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0 / 20 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
PART C
PART G
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesECKGS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Speak Life on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 3-6, silence through bars 7-9, snare through bars 10-12, ride through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-24 and snare through bars 25-30, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 16 and 18-20, and 12 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Speak Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-16 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-45 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 44-56 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Speak Life?

92 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 Speak Life hard to play on drums?

48 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED