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Valerie · Mark Ronson

EXERCISE 3 OF 34
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
112 / 192 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
PART B
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Valerie on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-27, silence through bars 28-45, hi-hat through bars 46-107, ride through bars 108-115 and hi-hat through bars 116-123, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-28 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 46-97 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 131-142 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 137-162 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 155-192 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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