One Little Victory · Rush

167 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 32-42, 44-50 and 77, and 3 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ONE LITTLE VICTORY · BARS 32-33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 25, 51, 60, 64, 67 and 11 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 21 sections: 117 keep time, 17 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-50.

PART A
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART X
CHORUS 4
PART R
PART AK
13 groovesKRMAX+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Little Victory?

130 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 One Little 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 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 One Little Victory?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 25, 51, 60, 64, 67 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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