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Velouria · Pixies

EXERCISE 25 OF 25
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
INTRO
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Velouria on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-53, ride through bars 54-59, hi-hat through bars 60-61, toms through bars 62-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-97, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Intro and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 52-60 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-98 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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