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Valerie ft. Mark Ronson · Amy Winehouse

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 16 PASSED · 72 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBJES4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Valerie ft. Mark Ronson on drums

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

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-52, ride through bars 53-56, hi-hat through bars 57-60, silence through bars 61-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-93.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x---x--x---|
Valerie ft. Mark Ronson -- 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 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Bars 51-57 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-89 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED