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Void Manifesto · Manapart

EXERCISE 33 OF 59
Groove S
79 / 120 BARS COVERED
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PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART O
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART K
OUTRO 2
15 groovesGFODI+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 6
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Void Manifesto on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-18, snare through bars 19-30, ride through bars 31-36, hi-hat through bars 37-47 and silence through bars 48-50, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-36 and 73-77 -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31               32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|--------------x-|
RD |--------x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---x-x-|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|--x---x---x---x-|
Void Manifesto -- 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 38, 46, 52, 55, 56, 72 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- G, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-47 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-78 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Void Manifesto?

148 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 Void Manifesto 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Void Manifesto?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 38, 46, 52, 55, 56, 72 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED