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Venom · Shadowcast

Venom · Shadowcast
EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 16 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
PART B
BREAK 2
OUTRO
4 groovesFBS3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Venom on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-33, silence through bars 34-45, ride through bars 46-53 and snare through bars 54-61, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Venom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-62 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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