Ode to Viceroy · Mac Demarco

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23 and 35-49 -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
ODE TO VICEROY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 2 sections: 82 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-53.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ode to Viceroy?

95 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 Ode to Viceroy hard to play on drums?

59 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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