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As The Vultures Circle · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 22 OF 84
Fill at bar 27 (a small one)
53 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART W
PART I
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART BB
CHORUS 4
PART CF
OUTRO
12 groovesQIBBVCF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play As The Vultures Circle on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-3, toms through bars 4-5, snare through bars 6-8, ride through bars 9-10 and snare through bars 11-18, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 31-33 and 35-36, and 5 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
As The Vultures Circle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BB, AN -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part W and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is As The Vultures Circle?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is As The Vultures Circle hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 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 As The Vultures Circle?

20 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED