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Victim Of Love · The Eagles

EXERCISE 14 OF 20
Groove T
74 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
6 groovesHMAEY+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Victim Of Love on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
37/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-27, ride through bars 28-34, snare through bars 35-57, toms through bars 58-59 and snare through bars 60-86.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 6 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    14               15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|----x---x-------|
SD |x-------x-------|x---------------|
BD |----x-------x---|----x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x-----------x---|
Victim Of Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- H, M, L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-14 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-53 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part M and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Victim Of Love?

83 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 Love hard to play on drums?

37 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED