If I Was Your Vampire · Marilyn Manson

151 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:45 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-37, 39 and 41, and 9 more places -- 75.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
IF I WAS YOUR VAMPIRE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 11 sections: 88 keep time and 58 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-120.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS8AS1S4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is If I Was Your Vampire?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 If I Was Your Vampire hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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