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Victim Of The Virtuoso · Famous Last Words

EXERCISE 1 OF 71
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART W
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Victim Of The Virtuoso on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-56, toms through bars 57-59, snare through bars 60-114, toms through bars 115-117 and snare through bars 118-122, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    4
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Victim Of The Virtuoso -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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, AC -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  5. Through Part N -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Bars 154-169 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED