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Vampire Love · Ash

EXERCISE 8 OF 25
Hold Groove D for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 9-16)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFBS1S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vampire Love on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-24, snare through bars 25-35 and toms through bars 36-44, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 25-27, and 15 more places -- 53.9% 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
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x--x----x--x----|
Vampire Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 23, 24, 43, 44, 62 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-25 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 21-77 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Vampire Love?

123 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 Love hard to play on drums?

55 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Vampire Love?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 23, 24, 43, 44, 62 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED