Vultures And Sharks · Oceans Ate Alaska

136 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28-30 and 35-37, and 7 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
VULTURES AND SHARKS · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 22, 25, 49, 71, 73 and 5 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 13 sections: 94 keep time, 11 are fills, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-41.

PART H
PART N
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AN
PART AU
PART AI
OUTRO 2
10 groovesVAIAUHAN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vultures And Sharks?

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

Is Vultures And Sharks 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?

136 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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 Vultures And Sharks?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 22, 25, 49, 71, 73 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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