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People-Vultures · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove J -- Outro
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PART S3
PART F
PART G
PART I
PART S7
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesJGS10IS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play People-Vultures on drums

115 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 4:51 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
82/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-9, silence through bars 10-20, hi-hat through bars 21-50, silence through bars 51-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-67, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 44 and 66-67, and 12 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx--xx--xx--xx--xx--xx--|
People-Vultures -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 6, 39, 40, 46, 47 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-32 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is People-Vultures?

105 BPM, in 6/4, 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 People-Vultures hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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.

How many fills are in People-Vultures?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 6, 39, 40, 46, 47 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED