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Vanity, a Fractured Promise · concealer.

EXERCISE 3 OF 40
Groove A -- Outro 2
55 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEABGQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vanity, a Fractured Promise on drums

123 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-35, silence through bars 36-38, hi-hat through bars 39-56, toms through bars 57-58 and snare through bars 59-123.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21-22 and 27, and 32 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|
Vanity, a Fractured Promise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 34, 57, 58, 74, 82 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E, I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-42 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-35 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-59 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vanity, a Fractured Promise?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Vanity, a Fractured Promise hard to play on drums?

50 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?

123 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Vanity, a Fractured Promise?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 34, 57, 58, 74, 82 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED