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Victim Of Changes · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 5 OF 59
Groove U -- Part U
31 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART Y
PART Z
PART AA
OUTRO
12 groovesBUYZAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Victim Of Changes on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-64, kick and crashes through bars 65-71, hi-hat through bars 72-95, silence through bars 96-99 and kick and crashes through bars 100-103, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 15-17 and 20, and 12 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, Y -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-52 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-71 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-103 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Victim Of Changes?

113 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 Victim Of Changes hard to play on drums?

64 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Victim Of Changes?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 14, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED