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Victory Over The Sun · Biffy Clyro

EXERCISE 14 OF 25
Groove I
78 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
BREAK
7 groovesGCES9J+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Victory Over The Sun on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-97 and silence through bars 98-112.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49-51 and 53-55, and 5 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |---x--x-----x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Victory Over The Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 72, 76 and 96.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- G, C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-45 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Victory Over The Sun?

146 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 Over The Sun hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Victory Over The Sun?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 72, 76 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED