Vindicate · Black Veil Brides

89 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreRock120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 31, and 3 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
VINDICATE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 36 and 6 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 15 sections: 49 keep time, 12 are fills, 7 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-61.

PART A
PART I
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART Z
PART AF
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesFOIZL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vindicate?

120 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 Vindicate hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Vindicate?

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 36 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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