ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play See A Victory on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 78 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 103
LENGTH: 5:17
DIFFICULTY: 62/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-26, hi-hat through bars 27-62, ride through bars 63-71 and silence through bars 72-73, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35-37, and 1 more place -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27               28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |------------o---|------------o---|
SD |------------x---|------------x---|
T1 |x-X--X--x-------|--X--X--X-------|
T2 |----------------|---------X------|
FT |--X--X--x-------|X-X--X----Xx----|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x--x----|

See A Victory -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 26, 28, 30, 38, 40 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- D, AD -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 11-27 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 40-55 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 7 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is See A Victory?

78 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 See A Victory hard to play on drums?

62 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?

103 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 See A Victory?

18 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 12, 26, 28, 30, 38, 40 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED