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Vampire Girl · Misfits

EXERCISE 19 OF 23
Fill at bar 112
111 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vampire Girl on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, ride through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-52 and ride through bars 53-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-81 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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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