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Vehicle · Ides Of March

Vehicle · Ides Of March
EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove K -- Chorus 2 (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART G
OUTRO
4 groovesKGCQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vehicle on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-19, ride through bars 20-22, hi-hat through bars 23-27 and ride through bars 28-31, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-22, 35-37 and 39-42, and 2 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20               21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|------------x---|
RD |x-x-x-x-xx-xx-x-|x-x-x-x-xxxx--x-|
HH |x-x-x-x-x---x-o-|x-x-x-x-x---x-o-|
SD |----x---x--x--x-|----x---xx-x--xx|
BD |x--x---x-x--xx--|x--x---x-x--xx--|
Vehicle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Bars 23-31 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vehicle?

102 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 Vehicle hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Vehicle?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED