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Virtual Insanity · Jamiroquai

EXERCISE 26 OF 32
Join Chorus 2 to Outro (bars 59-61)
72 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART D
VERSE
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIBDOL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Virtual Insanity on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 3-61, silence through bars 62-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-29, 46-48 and 58-59, and 3 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Virtual Insanity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 6, 22, 30, 44, 52, 60 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-68 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-41 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-60 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-84 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Virtual Insanity?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Virtual Insanity hard to play on drums?

51 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Virtual Insanity?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 6, 22, 30, 44, 52, 60 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED