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Io Vagabondo · Nomadi

Io Vagabondo · Nomadi
EXERCISE 17 OF 22
Run A2 · Part A (bars 55-63)
100 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Io Vagabondo on drums

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.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
36/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-35, ride through bars 36-40, hi-hat through bars 41-45 and ride through bars 46-51, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 16-63 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 55-125 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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