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Venēnum · Labor Waste

Venēnum · Labor Waste
EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove AB -- Part AB
0 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AB, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART AB
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBABAUBL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Venēnum on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-22, ride through bars 23-30, silence through bars 31-45, ride through bars 46-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-62, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|
Venēnum -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C (a two-bar phrase), BL -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-160 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-128 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-61 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part AB and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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