Vacation · Go-Gos

114 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-23, and 4 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
VACATION · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 49, 53, 87, 91, 107 and 1 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 8 sections: 97 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-48.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vacation?

160 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 Vacation 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?

114 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Vacation?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 49, 53, 87, 91, 107 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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