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vv v · Goose (GTS)

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove M -- Chorus
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PART D
PART K
CHORUS
PART O
PART U
PART Z
OUTRO
18 groovesMZUOD+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 5
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play vv v on drums

163 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, silence through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-82, toms through bars 83-84, silence through bars 85-87 and kick and crashes through bars 88-90, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-46 and 48-67 -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
vv v -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 68, 69, 70, 71, 80, 81 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-22 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is vv v?

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

Is vv v hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 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 vv v?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 68, 69, 70, 71, 80, 81 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED