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Vía Láctea · Zoé

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADCGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vía Láctea on drums

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

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

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-54, hi-hat through bars 55-88, ride through bars 89-102, hi-hat through bars 103-110 and kick and crashes through bars 111-117, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 103-130 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED