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Vox Populi · Hazbin Hotel

Vox Populi · Hazbin Hotel
EXERCISE 14 OF 47
Join Part H to Part L (bars 19-21)
51 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART L
PART B
PART H
PART L
PART S5
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesVS5BHL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vox Populi on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-33, silence through bars 34-46, snare through bars 47-49, hi-hat through bars 50-81 and snare through bars 82-97, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-57, 59-61 and 66-68, and 5 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    51
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Vox Populi -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 19, 20, 24, 28, 47, 48 and 12 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 -- V -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-29 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 27-50 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-63 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vox Populi?

144 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Vox Populi hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Vox Populi?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 19, 20, 24, 28, 47, 48 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED