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Vanity · Morofop

EXERCISE 16 OF 122
Groove I
60 / 211 BARS COVERED
0 / 122 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART H
PART C
PART H
PART N
PART S
PART AH
PART AQ
PART BA
CHORUS 2
PART BM
19 groovesBAQBMAHAS+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 5
JOIN · 16
LINK · 9
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vanity on drums

211 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 6:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
6:25
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-4, toms through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-18, ride through bars 19-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-30, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 93-94, 97-98 and 101-102, and 6 more places -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    93               94
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|X-----------X---|
HH |o---o---o---o---|----o---o-------|
SD |----X-------X---|----X---------X-|
BD |x---xxx-x-x-x-x-|X-x-x---x-----x-|
Vanity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

29 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 62 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 92 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 -- AQ, BM -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vanity?

132 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 Vanity hard to play on drums?

61 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 6:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 24 sittings, about 29 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 Vanity?

29 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED