Voiceless · Polaris

134 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11, 41-43 and 45-46, and 4 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
VOICELESS · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 65 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 12-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 11 sections: 39 keep time, 71 are fills, 2 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-125.

CHORUS
PART S
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART AS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKES8BCAV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Voiceless?

140 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 Voiceless hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Voiceless?

18 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 65 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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