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A Lot Like Vegas · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 14 OF 34
2-bar fill at bar 43
72 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCHES1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Lot Like Vegas on drums

105 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 1:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
1:54
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 3-57, snare through bars 58-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 19-34, and 2 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
A Lot Like Vegas -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 43, 44, 48 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Lot Like Vegas?

220 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 A Lot Like Vegas hard to play on drums?

62 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 A Lot Like Vegas?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 43, 44, 48 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED