Io Vagabondo · Nomadi

125 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-31, 34-35 and 41, and 11 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
IO VAGABONDO · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 42, 61, 62, 88 and 2 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 12 sections: 95 keep time, 8 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCAS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Io Vagabondo?

130 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 Io Vagabondo hard to play on drums?

36 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Io Vagabondo?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 32, 42, 61, 62, 88 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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