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Vapour Trail · Ride

EXERCISE 4 OF 10
Groove D -- Part D
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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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vapour Trail on drums

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

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-20, toms through bars 21-27, silence through bars 28-32, snare through bars 33-44 and toms through bars 45-51, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Vapour Trail -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-52 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

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