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Victim Without Reason · Return to Glory

EXERCISE 5 OF 75
Groove K -- Part K (a two-bar phrase)
17 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Victim Without Reason on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45 and snare through bars 46-58, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2                                                                3
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------x---x---x---x---x-------x---x-------x---|x-------x---x-------x---x-------x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Victim Without Reason -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- K, AG -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-22 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-59 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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