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Tiny Voices · Box Car Racer

EXERCISE 3 OF 37
Groove L -- Part L (a two-bar phrase)
30 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART S9
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDLBS9I+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tiny Voices on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-26, ride through bars 27-28, toms through bars 29-30, ride through bars 31-32 and snare through bars 33-38, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-24 and 39-48 -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |x-------x-------|--x-------x-----|
FT |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
BD |--xx--x-------x-|------x---------|
HF |g---g---g---g---|g---g---g---g---|
Tiny Voices -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 28, 32, 52, 56, 64, 68 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-65 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part S9 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tiny Voices?

153 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 Tiny Voices 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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.

How many fills are in Tiny Voices?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 28, 32, 52, 56, 64, 68 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED