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Vacation · Go-Gos

Vacation · Go-Gos
EXERCISE 3 OF 29
Groove A -- Part A
86 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vacation on drums

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.

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
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-49, ride through bars 50-65, hi-hat through bars 66-69, ride through bars 70-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-87, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Vacation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-70 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-111 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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