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Venice Queen · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 5 OF 21
Groove D
112 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
VERSE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIBGS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Venice Queen on drums

154 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
6:51
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-60, silence through bars 61-66, hi-hat through bars 67-89 and ride through bars 90-154.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 90-112 and 114-153 -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    90               91
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
HF |x---x---x-------|x---x---x-------|
Venice Queen -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 66, 89 and 113.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- I, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Venice Queen?

90 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 Venice Queen hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 6:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 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 Venice Queen?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 66, 89 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED