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Victory or Die · Motorhead

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Victory or Die on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 2-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-79 and snare through bars 80-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-21, 23 and 25-27, and 11 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Victory or Die -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 22, 24, 28, 31, 32, 36 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Victory or Die?

105 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 Victory or Die hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Victory or Die?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 22, 24, 28, 31, 32, 36 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED