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This Velvet Glove · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 5 OF 25
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
55 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Velvet Glove on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, silence through bars 25-29, hi-hat through bars 30-68, toms through bars 69-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-107.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-g--x--g-g--x---|
BD |x--x-------x---x|
This Velvet Glove -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-52 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-73 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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