Vice Grip · Parkway Drive

130 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 26 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
VICE GRIP · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 20, 22, 28, 44, 52 and 10 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 8 sections: 86 keep time, 16 are fills, 17 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-43.

CHORUS
PART P
PART V
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCVYPAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vice Grip?

125 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Vice Grip hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Vice Grip?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 20, 22, 28, 44, 52 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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