← SONGS

Violins · Lagwagon

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 66 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCADHFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Violins on drums

181 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-23, hi-hat through bars 24-25, snare through bars 26-31, hi-hat through bars 32-49 and snare through bars 50-63, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 26-32 and 50-64, and 3 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x-x-|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Violins -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-89 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-96 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 93-163 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Violins?

250 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?

51 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED