Vultures · John Mayer

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 18 more places -- 79.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
VULTURES · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars: 102 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-102.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vultures?

98 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 Vultures hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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