Vices Like Vipers V3 · Oh Sleeper

184 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 55-56 and 59, and 9 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 172 BPM
VICES LIKE VIPERS V3 · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 49 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 24-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 39-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 48-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 14 sections: 58 keep time, 55 are fills, 39 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-146.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AI
CHORUS 3
PART AT
PART BH
OUTRO
10 groovesBLABS1BH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vices Like Vipers V3?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Vices Like Vipers V3 hard to play on drums?

60 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Vices Like Vipers V3?

21 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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