Vienna · Billy Joel

99 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24, 32-40 and 42-44, and 9 more places -- 67.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
VIENNA · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 53, 72, 73, 77, 85 and 89.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 72-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 10 sections: 71 keep time, 6 are fills, 5 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-35.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesACS1GS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vienna?

125 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 Vienna hard to play on drums?

47 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Vienna?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 53, 72, 73, 77, 85 and 89.

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