The Void · Parkway Drive

117 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 9-11 and 13-15, and 15 more places -- 51.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 123 BPM
THE VOID · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 18, 20, 31, 32, 40 and 21 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 8 sections: 55 keep time, 27 are fills, 26 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-86.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAEVS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Void?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Void hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in The Void?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 18, 20, 31, 32, 40 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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