A-Punk · Vampire Weekend

98 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-19, 21-30 and 51-59, and 1 more place -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
A-PUNK · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 20, 38, 50, 60 and 86.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 9 sections: 79 keep time, 7 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-85.

PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesFHDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A-Punk?

175 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-Punk hard to play on drums?

51 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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-Punk?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 20, 38, 50, 60 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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