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VIPER · NDKH

EXERCISE 3 OF 50
Groove BI -- Outro 2
9 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
PART AC
PART AC
PART A
PART AZ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesCNAACAZ+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play VIPER on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-30 and snare through bars 31-38, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16 and 37, and 1 more place -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |------x-----x-----------------------x-----------|
VIPER -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 19, 24, 27, 39, 47, 79 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- K, A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BI -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-13 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-20 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part AC and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is VIPER?

146 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 VIPER hard to play on drums?

56 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 VIPER?

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 19, 24, 27, 39, 47, 79 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED