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Vindicate · Black Veil Brides

EXERCISE 13 OF 56
Run F1 · Chorus (bars 9-12)
38 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vindicate on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-20, ride through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-52, toms through bars 53-59 and snare through bars 60-65, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Vindicate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-21 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 19-25 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-37 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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