A Small Victory · Faith No More

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-13, 18-29 and 34, and 11 more places -- 67% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
A SMALL VICTORY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 33, 35, 37, 57, 59 and 9 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 12 sections: 90 keep time, 15 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-53.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCILS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Small Victory?

100 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 A Small Victory hard to play on drums?

60 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 A Small Victory?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 33, 35, 37, 57, 59 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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