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Like A Villain · Bad Omens

EXERCISE 17 OF 39
Join Chorus to Part A (bars 44-46)
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0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART S9
PART M
OUTRO
9 groovesGAMBS9+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Like A Villain on drums

133 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-60, snare through bars 61-77, silence through bars 78-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-98, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 61-67, and 4 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
Like A Villain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 32, 40, 48, 56, 60 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-41 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-62 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 59-92 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 85-104 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Like A Villain?

155 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 Like A Villain hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Like A Villain?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 32, 40, 48, 56, 60 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED