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Voices · Disturbed

EXERCISE 15 OF 51
Groove H
55 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART A
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART T
CHORUS 3
8 groovesIEACO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Voices on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-31, hi-hat through bars 32-43 and ride through bars 44-52, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-30, 45-49 and 74-78 -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
RD |x-x-x-xxx-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Voices -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 31, 35 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- I, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-35 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 32-47 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-65 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Voices?

110 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 hard to play on drums?

63 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 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 Voices?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 31, 35 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED