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Talk · Nasty

Talk · Nasty
EXERCISE 10 OF 48
Fill at bar 16 and 65 (a small one)
54 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART R
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKNBRO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Talk on drums

110 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26, silence through bars 27-33, snare through bars 34-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-43, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-14 and 17-18, and 11 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 19, 20, 24, 33 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- B, A -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part S3 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 29-52 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-105 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-82 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 79-110 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Talk?

160 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 Talk hard to play on drums?

47 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Talk?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 19, 20, 24, 33 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED