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Voiceless · Polaris

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
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PART E
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Voiceless on drums

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

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-31, toms through bars 32-40, snare through bars 41-54, toms through bars 55-58 and snare through bars 59-71, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41               42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x--x-------x--x-|--x-xxxx--xx-xxx|
Voiceless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-29 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-44 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-71 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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