violins · Chamber

102 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-37 and 41-45 -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 172 BPM
VIOLINS · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 32 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 9 sections: 32 keep time, 38 are fills, 21 are stops and 6 are silent.

CHORUS
PART M
PART U
PART Z
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGJUZM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is violins?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is violins hard to play on drums?

62 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 violins?

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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