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Black Velvet Update · Alannah Myles

EXERCISE 4 OF 9
Join Chorus to Break (bars 26-28)
100 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Black Velvet Update on drums

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

61 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
61/100

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 8 more places -- 88% 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-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Black Velvet Update -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 26-110 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED