Vengeance · Yngwie Malmsteen

305 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 5:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
305
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-65, 67-72 and 93-107, and 4 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 240 BPM
VENGEANCE · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 26, 42, 44 and 24 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

305 bars across 25 sections: 193 keep time, 30 are fills, 43 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 177-202.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART A
PART O
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART O
17 groovesEIOAT+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vengeance?

240 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 Vengeance hard to play on drums?

56 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

305 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Vengeance?

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 26, 42, 44 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 305 BARS ANALYSED
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