Vivarium · Ado

195 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-71, 76-78 and 80, and 8 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
VIVARIUM · BAR 69
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 93 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 87 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 3-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 11-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 28-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 14 sections: 78 keep time, 93 are fills, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-111.

PART F
PART AB
PART AE
CHORUS
PART BR
PART U
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAXFUAEAB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vivarium?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Vivarium hard to play on drums?

64 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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 Vivarium?

18 fills to learn, played 93 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 87 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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