The Long Vigil · Suno

373 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 8:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
373
LENGTH
8:07
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-50, 52 and 54, and 22 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 184 BPM
THE LONG VIGIL · BAR 50
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31 and 68 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 21-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 29-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

373 bars across 48 sections: 196 keep time, 74 are fills, 34 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-110.

CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART J
PART J
OUTRO
32 groovesPJAFS1+27Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Long Vigil?

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

Is The Long Vigil hard to play on drums?

55 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

373 bars, about 8:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 101 exercises over 27 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Long Vigil?

22 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 373 BARS ANALYSED
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