Black Velvet Update · Alannah Myles

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

PopRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100
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 8 more places -- 88% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 53.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 4 sections: 102 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-27.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Velvet Update?

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 Update hard to play on drums?

61 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 47 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 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Black Velvet Update?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 53.

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