Surf Nouveau · The Aqua Velvets

132 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-30 and 53-55, and 6 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
SURF NOUVEAU · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 100, 115, 116, 119 and 120.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 115-116 · LANDS ON BAR 117 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 119-120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 15 sections: 92 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-82.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesDOS1BI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Surf Nouveau?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Surf Nouveau hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Surf Nouveau?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 100, 115, 116, 119 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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