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Vacios · Experimentando Recuerdos

EXERCISE 18 OF 77
Groove H
75 / 230 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART I
PART V
PART AA
PART I
PART AG
OUTRO 2
15 groovesS26ALCAG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vacios on drums

230 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 5:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-47, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 9-11 and 27-29, and 5 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x-------x---x---x---x---x-------x---x---|
Vacios -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 52, 65, 69 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- A, AG -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vacios?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Vacios hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 23 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 Vacios?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 52, 65, 69 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED