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Vultures · Northlane

EXERCISE 18 OF 48
Groove J (a two-bar phrase)
45 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vultures on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bars 2-15, silence through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-31, toms through bars 32-33, snare through bars 34-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-55, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xxx-----------x-|----xxx-----x---|
Vultures -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 18 and 44 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-107 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-48 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part S5 and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-49 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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