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Venom · Ankor

EXERCISE 2 OF 56
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
6 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
PART S11
PART AS
OUTRO 2
13 groovesSIS11AFAJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Venom on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bars 3-13, hi-hat through bars 14-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-44, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47, 57-58 and 81-83 -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Venom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-11 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-23 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-47 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Venom?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Venom hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Venom?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED