Vanish Canvas​ · Erra

149 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-44, 47-48 and 51-52, and 2 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
VANISH CANVAS​ · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 27 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 20-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 11 sections: 85 keep time, 33 are fills, 2 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-84.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART AE
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCNRAES9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vanish Canvas​?

134 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 Vanish Canvas​ hard to play on drums?

53 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Vanish Canvas​?

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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