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One Little Victory · Rush

EXERCISE 10 OF 69
Groove F -- Part F
83 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART F, PART R
PART A
PART F
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART X
CHORUS 4
PART R
PART F
PART AK
13 groovesKRMAX+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Little Victory on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-21, silence through bars 22-23, snare through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-69 and kick and crashes through bars 70-71, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    32               33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-------x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
T2 |----------------|--------x-x-----|
BD |x-x---x-x-----x-|x-x---x-------x-|
One Little Victory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- M, R -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-155 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-26 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 24-35 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-61 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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