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EXERCISE 18 OF 74
Fill at bar 38 (a small one)
105 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AR
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
9 groovesCGXADAR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Voices on drums

176 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34, toms through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-42, toms through bars 43-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-48, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 22 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x---x---x-x-x---x---x---x---|
Voices -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 22, 30, 34, 35, 36, 38 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- C, X -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 55-64 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Voices?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Voices hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 22, 30, 34, 35, 36, 38 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED