Vía Láctea · Zoé

146 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Rock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 18 more places -- 36.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 151 BPM
VÍA LÁCTEA · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 126.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 126 · LANDS ON BAR 127
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 11 sections: 132 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-32.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
4 groovesADCGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vía Láctea?

151 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 Vía Láctea hard to play on drums?

56 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Vía Láctea?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 126.

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