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Vindicated · Dashboard Confessional

EXERCISE 17 OF 23
Join Part J to Outro (bars 49-51)
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PART B
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDJKBS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vindicated on drums

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

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-42, snare through bars 43-58, ride through bars 59-65 and snare through bars 66-67.

The beat

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.

    19
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
Vindicated -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-51 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-62 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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