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Vampire · Versailles

EXERCISE 4 OF 50
Groove O -- Part O
28 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART AF
PART G
PART K
PART O
CHORUS
PART K
PART AF
PART AI
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART AU
OUTRO 2
15 groovesUKAADG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vampire on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-60, toms through bars 61-68, ride through bars 69-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-81, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 61-63 and 65-67 -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |x-----x-----x-------------------|
FT |x-----x-----x-------------------|
Vampire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 55, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- K, U -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-42 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vampire?

117 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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?

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 55, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED