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Varzaa · Vita de vie

EXERCISE 5 OF 22
Groove E
121 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDHAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Varzaa on drums

167 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
36/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-30, 32-39 and 41-55, and 21 more places -- 67.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Varzaa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 56, 96, 134 and 156.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 68-85 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Varzaa?

140 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 Varzaa hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Varzaa?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 56, 96, 134 and 156.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED