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La Villa Strangiato (live 1981) · Rush

EXERCISE 12 OF 121
Groove C -- Part C
40 / 250 BARS COVERED
0 / 121 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART BI
PART CE
BREAK
22 groovesAKBIS24CEO+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 5
JOIN · 21
LINK · 3
SECTION · 19
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play La Villa Strangiato (live 1981) on drums

250 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 11:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
11:11
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-65, ride through bars 66-68, hi-hat through bars 69-105, ride through bars 106-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-111, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84-92, 94-96 and 98, and 1 more place -- 6.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    85
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------------xx----|
BD |x-------------x---x---------|
La Villa Strangiato (live 1981) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 45, 53, 57, 59, 61, 63 and 58 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 96 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 -- AK, CE -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is La Villa Strangiato (live 1981)?

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 La Villa Strangiato (live 1981) hard to play on drums?

53 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?

250 bars, about 11:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 96 exercises over 29 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in La Villa Strangiato (live 1981)?

24 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 45, 53, 57, 59, 61, 63 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 250 BARS ANALYSED