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White Noise · Erra

EXERCISE 26 OF 81
Groove T -- Part T (a two-bar phrase)
84 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
CHORUS
PART T
PART N
PART AC
PART T
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AR
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGONTAR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play White Noise on drums

161 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-11, snare through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-69, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 33, and 7 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    70
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
White Noise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- O -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-33 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is White Noise?

170 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 White Noise hard to play on drums?

61 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 White Noise?

21 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED