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Vices Like Vipers V3 · Oh Sleeper

Vices Like Vipers V3 · Oh Sleeper
EXERCISE 20 OF 81
Run L1 · Part L (bars 34-56)
76 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vices Like Vipers V3 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-30, toms through bars 31-36, snare through bars 37-39, hi-hat through bars 40-41 and snare through bars 42-48, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Vices Like Vipers V3 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, AB -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AB -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part AI -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-99 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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