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The Velorium Camper III: Al The Killer · Coheed And Cambria

EXERCISE 16 OF 53
Groove K -- Part K
125 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART W
PART K
OUTRO
9 groovesMGESK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Velorium Camper III: Al The Killer on drums

190 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 163 BPM, 4:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-45, ride through bars 46-51, hi-hat through bars 52-53, ride through bars 54-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-62, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-51, 54-59 and 103-108, and 5 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
The Velorium Camper III: Al The Killer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 40, 45, 96 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- M, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-138 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-46 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 44-72 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 90-99 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Velorium Camper III: Al The Killer?

163 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Velorium Camper III: Al The Killer hard to play on drums?

59 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 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 III: Al The Killer?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 37, 38, 39, 40, 45, 96 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED