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Vacuity · Gojira

EXERCISE 9 OF 47
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 47 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
PART D
PART A
PART D
PART C
PART D
PART C
PART M
CHORUS
PART O
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesTOAMC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vacuity on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 6:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
6:35
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30, snare through bars 31-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-58 and ride through bars 59-73, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 18 and 31-32, and 12 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Vacuity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 30, 38, 46, 54, 88 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C, O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 17-37 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vacuity?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Vacuity hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 6:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Vacuity?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 30, 38, 46, 54, 88 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED