Vultures · Northlane

107 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 26-27, and 4 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
VULTURES · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 18 and 44 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 18-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 32-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 18 sections: 38 keep time, 50 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-84.

CHORUS
PART F
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
PART S11
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
13 groovesBFS11ALK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vultures?

126 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?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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?

10 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 18 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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