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Vanishing · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove K -- Chorus 3
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PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART AA
OUTRO
8 groovesKMAABF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vanishing on drums

69 bars, 4:36, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
82/100

snare through bars 2-5, toms through bars 6-11, hi-hat through bars 12-13, toms through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-47 and toms through bars 48-50, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 27-29 and 31, and 1 more place -- 14.9% 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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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXX|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x---x---x-----x---|
Vanishing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-18 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-22 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-45 -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vanishing?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Vanishing hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Vanishing?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED