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Vampire · Janne Da Arc

Vampire · Janne Da Arc
EXERCISE 9 OF 51
Fill at bar 13, 21, 77 and 2 more (a small one)
102 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART L
CHORUS
PART B
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART H
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesSBLHS13+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vampire on drums

195 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-55, toms through bars 56-57, hi-hat through bars 58-73 and toms through bars 74-81, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-64, 66-71 and 114-120, and 3 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 33 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- S, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vampire?

185 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 Vampire hard to play on drums?

56 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 33 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED