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Talk · Periphery

EXERCISE 28 OF 106
8-bar fill at bar 21
107 / 210 BARS COVERED
0 / 106 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART AW
OUTRO
14 groovesDZGAWQ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Talk on drums

210 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 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
210
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 3-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, toms through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-36 and toms through bars 37-45, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9 and 11, and 23 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    63
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |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

25 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 12, 14, 15 and 63 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- D, Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-90 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 13-66 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 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?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Talk?

25 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 12, 14, 15 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED