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The Voice of Conviction · Cypecore

EXERCISE 32 OF 92
Groove P
132 / 228 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART AB, PART AK
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AB
CHORUS 3
PART AF
PART AG
PART AK
OUTRO
15 groovesDEIAKN+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 10
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Voice of Conviction on drums

228 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-36, ride through bars 37-42 and snare through bars 43-49, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 11, and 31 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x-x---|
The Voice of Conviction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 4, 9, 12, 17, 20 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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, E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-15 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-57 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Voice of Conviction?

177 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 The Voice of Conviction hard to play on drums?

54 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Voice of Conviction?

17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 4, 9, 12, 17, 20 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED