Victim Of The Virtuoso · Famous Last Words

188 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 8, and 22 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
VICTIM OF THE VIRTUOSO · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 23, 29, 35, 83, 91 and 5 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 18 sections: 148 keep time, 11 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-78.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AF
CHORUS 3
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBACWARAF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Victim Of The Virtuoso?

185 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 Victim Of The Virtuoso hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 23 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 The Virtuoso?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 23, 29, 35, 83, 91 and 5 more.

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