Vicarious · Tool

172 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 114 BPM, 7:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
7:06
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-55, 58-59 and 62-63, and 3 more places -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
VICARIOUS · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 21, 25, 33, 37, 41, 49 and 22 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 17 sections: 86 keep time, 28 are fills, 5 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-99.

CHORUS
PART W
PART W
PART AJ
PART AO
CHORUS 2
BREAK
14 groovesAS17WAJE+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vicarious?

114 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Vicarious hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 7:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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 Vicarious?

15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 21, 25, 33, 37, 41, 49 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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