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Vergebliches Leben · Grausamkeit

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 32 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART B
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAIBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vergebliches Leben on drums

118 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-59, hi-hat through bars 60-70 and snare through bars 71-72, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 25-31 and 33-39, and 4 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 40, 42, 52 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A, I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-76 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-58 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 74-118 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Vergebliches Leben?

162 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 Vergebliches Leben hard to play on drums?

51 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Vergebliches Leben?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 40, 42, 52 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED