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You Vandal · Saves The Day

You Vandal · Saves The Day
EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 37 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHGCKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Vandal on drums

119 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 2:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-61, snare through bars 62-76, toms through bars 77-78, hi-hat through bars 79-102 and snare through bars 103-110, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-49, 51-57 and 95-101, and 1 more place -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
You Vandal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 50, 58, 77 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- H, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is You Vandal?

205 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 You Vandal hard to play on drums?

58 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 You Vandal?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 50, 58, 77 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED