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Vixen · Destroy Boys

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAEOXL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vixen on drums

113 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-63, toms through bars 64-80, snare through bars 81-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-19, and 2 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 36, 38, 40, 44, 64, 66 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-52 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 59-66 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-72 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part O -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-100 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vixen?

180 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 Vixen 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Vixen?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 36, 38, 40, 44, 64, 66 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED