ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vanish Canvas on drums

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.

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

TEMPO: 134 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 149
LENGTH: 4:23
DIFFICULTY: 53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-68, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|

Vanish Canvas​ -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- N, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Bars 45-137 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 49-143 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part R and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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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?