volga · juhamatti

148 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-40, 46-56 and 92-101, and 2 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 133 BPM
VOLGA · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 13 sections: 131 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-112.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesEDFBA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is volga?

133 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 volga hard to play on drums?

57 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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