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Vitamin · Incubus

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEDCS17K+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vitamin on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, snare through bars 18-26, hi-hat through bars 27-36, snare through bars 37-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-54, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 37-43 and 55-62, and 1 more place -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x---x-|
Vitamin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 63 and 64.

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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-75 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Vitamin?

130 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 Vitamin hard to play on drums?

50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Vitamin?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 63 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED