The Vagabond · Air

79 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 95 BPM, 2:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Electronic90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-36, 41-44 and 46-79 -- 74.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
THE VAGABOND · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 39.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 6 sections: 54 keep time, 1 is a fill, 3 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-79.

PART S1
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesFS1ECS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Vagabond?

95 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Vagabond hard to play on drums?

42 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Vagabond?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 39.

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