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Black Velvet (E standard tuning) · 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 (E standard tuning) on drums

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

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
63/100

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-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Black Velvet (E standard tuning) -- 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 27 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 (E standard tuning)?

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 (E standard tuning) hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 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 (E standard tuning)?

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