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Vincent · Car Seat Headrest

EXERCISE 15 OF 66
Groove J -- Part J
136 / 229 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART T
OUTRO
12 groovesEATBL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vincent on drums

229 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 6:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-108, snare through bars 109-114, toms through bars 115-116 and ride through bars 117-120, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37-44 and 53-55, and 7 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x------x-x-xx-x-|
SD |----x--g-g--x--g|
BD |x---------x-----|
Vincent -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 27, 28, 36, 56, 60, 65 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- E, L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-129 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-109 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vincent?

147 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Vincent hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Vincent?

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 27, 28, 36, 56, 60, 65 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED