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害虫 / Vermin · Utsu-P

EXERCISE 16 OF 71
Join Chorus to Part H (bars 15-17)
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0 / 71 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
PART N
PART H
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AB
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEKNABH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 害虫 / Vermin on drums

184 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-39, hi-hat through bars 40-72, snare through bars 73-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-94, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 97-103, and 4 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    98
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x--x-x--|
害虫 / Vermin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 6, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-28 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 害虫 / Vermin?

190 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 害虫 / Vermin hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 害虫 / Vermin?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 6, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED