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Vice Grip · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 7 OF 45
Groove F
63 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART V
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vice Grip on drums

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

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-80, toms through bars 81-102, snare through bars 103-122 and toms through bars 123-130.

The beat

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.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------x-----|
Vice Grip -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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