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Talk Shows On Mute · Incubus

EXERCISE 4 OF 22
Groove B
64 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Talk Shows On Mute on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-52, ride through bars 53-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 5 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------------x-|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|
Talk Shows On Mute -- 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 21 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, H, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-39 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Talk Shows On Mute?

120 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 Shows On Mute hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED