Vasya · Bravo

164 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaeRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 18 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
VASYA · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 27, 40, 41, 42, 43, 51 and 13 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 40-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 14 sections: 113 keep time, 22 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-15.

CHORUS
PART N
PART E
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART F
OUTRO
6 groovesBNEIF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vasya?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Vasya hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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 Vasya?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 27, 40, 41, 42, 43, 51 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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