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The Void · Cypecore

EXERCISE 30 OF 72
Run S81 · Part S8 (bars 82-84)
159 / 243 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S8
PART S2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART Q
CHORUS 5
PART AD
PART AH
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesCUGAHS2+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Void on drums

243 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-33, snare through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-81 and toms through bars 82-83, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84-90, 92-96 and 132-136, and 9 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    84
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x-x-|
The Void -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 25, 32, 33, 37, 41, 49 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- U, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-84 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-101 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Void?

200 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 Void hard to play on drums?

52 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

243 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 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 Void?

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 25, 32, 33, 37, 41, 49 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 243 BARS ANALYSED