Vindicated · Dashboard Confessional

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 5 more places -- 47% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
VINDICATED · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 50, 58 and 67.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 7 sections: 50 keep time, 3 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-32.

PART B
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDJKBS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vindicated?

87 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 Vindicated hard to play on drums?

52 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?

67 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Vindicated?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 50, 58 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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