Black Velvet · Alannah Myles

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-27 and 29-31, and 9 more places -- 87.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BLACK VELVET · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 32, 53, 61, 65, 69 and 4 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 109-110 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 6 sections: 96 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-52.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Velvet?

91 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 Black Velvet hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Black Velvet?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 32, 53, 61, 65, 69 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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