Venēnum · Labor Waste

173 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54, 56 and 58, and 10 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
VENĒNUM · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 19, 20, 21 and 51 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 23-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 46-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 15 sections: 57 keep time, 57 are fills, 34 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 153-158.

CHORUS
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART AB
PART A
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBABAUBL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Venēnum?

150 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 Venēnum hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Venēnum?

20 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 19, 20, 21 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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