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Eagles Become Vultures · Converge

EXERCISE 12 OF 25
Groove J
47 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHDS5S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eagles Become Vultures on drums

78 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
1:32
DIFFICULTY
63/100

ride through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-13, silence through bars 14-16, ride through bars 17-23, toms through bars 24-32 and ride through bars 33-39, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-12 and 49-56 -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-------|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---xxxxxx|
BD |x----x--x----x--|x----x--x-------|
Eagles Become Vultures -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 20, 24 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 42-66 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Eagles Become Vultures?

200 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 Eagles Become Vultures hard to play on drums?

63 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 1:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Eagles Become Vultures?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 20, 24 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED