Vapour Trail · Ride

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:02 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 16-19 and 33-38, and 2 more places -- 79.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
VAPOUR TRAIL · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 8 sections: 80 keep time, 2 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-106.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBDS7S1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vapour Trail?

105 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 Vapour Trail hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Ride drum parts

EVERY RIDE CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →