Velouria · Pixies

103 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 12-13 and 28-33, and 13 more places -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
VELOURIA · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 27, 34, 53, 59, 61 and 5 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 11 sections: 69 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-96.

COUNT-IN
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesFGKS1S11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Velouria?

124 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 Velouria hard to play on drums?

52 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Velouria?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 27, 34, 53, 59, 61 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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