New Fang · Them Crooked Vultures

180 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-23, 25-40 and 55-61, and 4 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 187 BPM
NEW FANG · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 24, 53, 54, 62, 78 and 10 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 7 sections: 124 keep time, 16 are fills and 32 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-98.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIYAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Fang?

187 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is New Fang hard to play on drums?

71 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?

180 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 New Fang?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 24, 53, 54, 62, 78 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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