Valerie · Mark Ronson

192 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 31 more places -- 46.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 208 BPM
VALERIE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 107 and 155.

LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108
LOOP · 208 BPM
BAR 155 · LANDS ON BAR 156
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 16 sections: 137 keep time, 2 are fills, 9 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-87.

PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART H
CHORUS 5
10 groovesEBS4DH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Valerie?

208 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Valerie hard to play on drums?

53 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Valerie?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 107 and 155.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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