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Voices · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 3 OF 41
Groove J -- Outro
29 / 84 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
PART R
PART J
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBJEKS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Voices on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, silence through bars 22-23, snare through bars 24-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-39, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 28, and 7 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------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

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 17, 27, 31, 35, 39 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-28 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-40 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-52 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Voices?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 17, 27, 31, 35, 39 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED