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Talk · Against The Current
EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 41 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART C
CHORUS 5
PART J
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAJCGOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Talk on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot.

20 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
20/100

The time is kept on the toms the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-16 and 37, and 10 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
FT |x-x---x---x---x-|--x---x-x-x-x-x-|
Talk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 44, 52, 60, 68, 76 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, A, J -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-25 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-44 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-61 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-89 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Talk?

152 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 Talk hard to play on drums?

20 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Talk?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 44, 52, 60, 68, 76 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED