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A-Punk · Vampire Weekend

A-Punk · Vampire Weekend
EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesFHDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A-Punk on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-30, toms through bars 31-46, hi-hat through bars 47-70, toms through bars 71-94 and hi-hat through bars 95-98.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- F, H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 3-11 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-39 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-70 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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