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Void in Blue · Glare

Void in Blue · Glare
EXERCISE 11 OF 19
Groove L
51 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Void in Blue on drums

63 bars, 3:22, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-63.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-32 and 37, and 4 more places -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Void in Blue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 33, 38, 39, 40, 56 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Void in Blue?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Void in Blue hard to play on drums?

50 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Void in Blue?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 14, 33, 38, 39, 40, 56 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED