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Voices Carry · 'Til Tuesday

Voices Carry · 'Til Tuesday
EXERCISE 22 OF 22
Play the whole song with the record
119 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 120 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Voices Carry on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-23, ride through bars 24-32, hi-hat through bars 33-46 and ride through bars 47-120.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-32, 47-50 and 52-54, and 5 more places -- 64.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Voices Carry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 8, 23, 51, 60, 68 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-36 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Voices Carry?

112 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 Voices Carry hard to play on drums?

49 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Voices Carry?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 8, 23, 51, 60, 68 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED