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Voodoo Doll · 5 Seconds Of Summer

EXERCISE 12 OF 70
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
63 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART B
PART E
PART J
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART AF
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNPAFBE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Voodoo Doll on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 2-33, snare through bars 34-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-41, hi-hat through bars 42-53, snare through bars 54-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-75, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 62-68 and 96-100 -- 16.4% 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---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Voodoo Doll -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 24, 25, 33 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- N, P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-50 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-57 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Voodoo Doll?

144 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 Voodoo Doll hard to play on drums?

54 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Voodoo Doll?

17 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 24, 25, 33 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED