Valerie · Steve Winwood

119 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 16-17, and 16 more places -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
VALERIE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 49, 74, 78 and 111.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 9 sections: 102 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-97.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAEDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Valerie?

117 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 hard to play on drums?

47 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 49, 74, 78 and 111.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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