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Black Velvet · Alannah Myles

EXERCISE 10 OF 12
Play the whole song with the record
106 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 110 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Velvet on drums

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

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 2-110.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-g-x-g-X-g-x-g-X-g-x-g-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Black Velvet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 26-84 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
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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