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Vertigo · U2

EXERCISE 11 OF 21
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
92 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBHEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vertigo on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
34/100

snare through bars 1-75, kick and crashes through bars 76-84 and snare through bars 85-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-22, 24 and 26, and 13 more places -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Vertigo -- 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 20 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 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 72-102 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Vertigo?

140 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 Vertigo hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED