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EXERCISE 16 OF 34
Groove I -- Part I
107 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDFBGC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vendetta on drums

125 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
46/100

ride through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-52, snare through bars 53-68, hi-hat through bars 69-97 and snare through bars 98-100, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31, 33-36 and 53-68, and 5 more places -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Vendetta -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 94, 96, 97, 98, 100, 108 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, F -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-20 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 69-76 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Vendetta?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Vendetta hard to play on drums?

46 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Vendetta?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 94, 96, 97, 98, 100, 108 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED