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Versus · Heaven Pierce Her

EXERCISE 13 OF 15
Join Part F to Part B (bars 59-61)
106 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Versus on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on ride, snare and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-4 and ride through bars 5-116.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 37 and 39, and 9 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-xxxxx-x-x-|
SD |g-g-x-ggggg-x-g-|
Versus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 17-40 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Versus?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Versus hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED