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The Velorium Camper I: Faint of Hearts · Coheed And Cambria

EXERCISE 16 OF 45
Fill at bar 41 and 75 (a small one)
132 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART B
PART G
PART C
PART C
PART G
PART T
OUTRO 2
8 groovesACGCBN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Velorium Camper I: Faint of Hearts on drums

180 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-75, kick and crashes through bars 76-77, ride through bars 78-85, hi-hat through bars 86-117 and ride through bars 118-125, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 131-132, 134-145 and 148-159, and 1 more place -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    148
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
The Velorium Camper I: Faint of Hearts -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 41, 59 and 75.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- AC, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-56 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 56-78 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-89 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Velorium Camper I: Faint of Hearts?

138 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 The Velorium Camper I: Faint of Hearts hard to play on drums?

52 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in The Velorium Camper I: Faint of Hearts?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 41, 59 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED