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Cheap Vodka · Acid Bath

EXERCISE 18 OF 52
Fill at bar 16 and 34 (a small one)
52 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS
PART T
PART V
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIVACGZ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cheap Vodka on drums

95 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-20 and toms through bars 21-22, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17 and 31-33, and 3 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x-----xx--x-x---|
Cheap Vodka -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- I, T -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cheap Vodka?

180 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 Cheap Vodka hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Cheap Vodka?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED