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EXERCISE 4 OF 55
Groove C
32 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART G
PART AA
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBS7GMAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vahle on drums

154 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-39, toms through bars 40-41, snare through bars 42-66, silence through bars 67-80 and snare through bars 81-96, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 25 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxx--xxxx--x--x|
Vahle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, AA -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-91 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-42 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-52 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vahle?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Vahle hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Vahle?

13 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED