vad · Vad

97 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / FolkElectronic150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:03
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 25-40 and 57-96 -- 66% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 190 BPM
VAD · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 56.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 5 sections: 90 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-96.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is vad?

190 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 vad hard to play on drums?

53 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in vad?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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