Venom · Shadowcast

93 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20-22 and 24-26, and 7 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
VENOM · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 48, 52 and 53.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 6 sections: 43 keep time, 6 are fills, 24 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-85.

PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
PART B
BREAK 2
OUTRO
4 groovesFBS3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Venom?

136 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?

62 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 48, 52 and 53.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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