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Vivica · Jack Off Jill

EXERCISE 26 OF 52
Chorus into Part J with the record (bars 34-41)
118 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART J
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesKCJGQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vivica on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-26, toms through bars 27-28, ride through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-58 and toms through bars 59-60, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 18 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 20, 27, 28, 36, 59 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- C, J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-36 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-77 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 92-121 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vivica?

112 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 Vivica hard to play on drums?

49 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Vivica?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 20, 27, 28, 36, 59 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED