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The Vagabond · Air

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 14 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK, OUTRO
PART S1
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesFS1ECS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Vagabond on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
42/100

ride through bar 1, silence through bars 2-19, ride through bars 20-28, snare through bars 29-43, hi-hat through bars 44-46 and snare through bars 47-55, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |------x-----|
BD |x--x--------|
The Vagabond -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-56 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED