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Voracité · First Fragment

EXERCISE 12 OF 91
Groove G -- Part G
119 / 279 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART A
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AK
OUTRO 2
10 groovesYAMBJAW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Voracité on drums

279 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
279
LENGTH
6:15
DIFFICULTY
74/100

ride through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-32, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 92-94, 96-98 and 100-102, and 11 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    93
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Voracité -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 47, 51, 53, 54, 55, 57 and 81 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, AW -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Voracité?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Voracité hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

279 bars, about 6:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Voracité?

22 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 47, 51, 53, 54, 55, 57 and 81 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 279 BARS ANALYSED