Valerie ft. Mark Ronson · Amy Winehouse

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-19, 21-39 and 41-51, and 4 more places -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
VALERIE FT. MARK RONSON · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 6 sections: 84 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-51.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBJES4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Valerie ft. Mark Ronson?

105 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 Valerie ft. Mark Ronson hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Valerie ft. Mark Ronson?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.

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