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Voodoo People (Originally By... The Prodigy!) · Pendulum

EXERCISE 14 OF 19
Groove K
72 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
PART G
PART H
CHORUS
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesJGHS8A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Voodoo People (Originally By... The Prodigy!) on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-48, silence through bars 49-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-43, 61-71 and 77-87 -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----x---------x-----|
Voodoo People (Originally By... The Prodigy!) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-33 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Voodoo People (Originally By... The Prodigy!)?

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 Voodoo People (Originally By... The Prodigy!) hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED