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Vultures And Sharks · Oceans Ate Alaska

EXERCISE 8 OF 64
Groove G
47 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART H
PART N
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AN
PART AU
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesVAIAUHAN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vultures And Sharks on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bars 3-47, hi-hat through bars 48-62, snare through bars 63-78, hi-hat through bars 79-82, snare through bars 83-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-90, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    28
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----|
Vultures And Sharks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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, AI -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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