Victim Without Reason · Return to Glory

125 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 2 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 137 BPM
VICTIM WITHOUT REASON · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 15, 17, 19, 21, 39 and 10 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 17 sections: 79 keep time, 16 are fills, 11 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-74.

CHORUS
PART G
PART K
PART O
PART T
PART AG
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AK
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBTKAAO+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Victim Without Reason?

137 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Without Reason hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Without Reason?

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 15, 17, 19, 21, 39 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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