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Vengeance · Yngwie Malmsteen

EXERCISE 6 OF 56
Groove O -- Part O
130 / 305 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 51 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vengeance on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
305
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-26, ride through bars 27-45, snare through bars 46-50, hi-hat through bars 51-72, snare through bars 73-74 and ride through bars 75-92, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 18-24 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S9 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-77 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-140 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 139-175 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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