Сам Не Свой (Утопец) · Vain to Vex

108 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31 and 67-73 -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
САМ НЕ СВОЙ (УТОПЕЦ) · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 24, 42, 66, 84, 92 and 1 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 13 sections: 51 keep time, 7 are fills, 39 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-50.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART M
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART M
PART P
OUTRO
9 groovesFPMUI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Сам Не Свой (Утопец)?

160 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 Сам Не Свой (Утопец) hard to play on drums?

47 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 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 Сам Не Свой (Утопец)?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 24, 42, 66, 84, 92 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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