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The Void · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 7 OF 41
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
73 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Void on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-64, snare through bars 65-70, toms through bars 71-72, snare through bars 73-80, hi-hat through bars 81-88 and snare through bars 89-99, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
The Void -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-69 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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