This Velvet Glove · Red Hot Chili Peppers

107 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 33-39 and 53-67, and 1 more place -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 119 BPM
THIS VELVET GLOVE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 32, 40, 52, 68, 69 and 7 more.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 68-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 10 sections: 74 keep time, 13 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHES1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Velvet Glove?

119 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 This Velvet Glove hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in This Velvet Glove?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 32, 40, 52, 68, 69 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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