Vasoline · Stone Temple Pilots

57 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 2:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-7, 9-16 and 21-28, and 4 more places -- 64.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 84 BPM
VASOLINE · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 20, 32, 37, 38, 39 and 3 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 37-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 8 sections: 38 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vasoline?

84 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 Vasoline hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Vasoline?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 20, 32, 37, 38, 39 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 57 BARS ANALYSED
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