Vital Signs · Rush

167 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-20 and 22-26 -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
VITAL SIGNS · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 44, 57, 58, 77, 86, 92 and 11 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 14 sections: 115 keep time, 17 are fills, 12 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-27.

PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART P
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
PART AL
PART AU
13 groovesLIDPAL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vital Signs?

144 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 Vital Signs hard to play on drums?

59 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Vital Signs?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 44, 57, 58, 77, 86, 92 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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