Vampire Girl · Misfits

117 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Punk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 13-19, and 5 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
VAMPIRE GIRL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 28, 40, 44, 64, 80 and 5 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 62 keep time, 11 are fills, 37 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-49.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
4 groovesCAS9KFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vampire Girl?

138 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 Vampire Girl hard to play on drums?

52 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 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 Vampire Girl?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 28, 40, 44, 64, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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