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Ventura Highway · America

EXERCISE 27 OF 33
Groove Q
91 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFDJS1G+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ventura Highway on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-41, ride through bars 42-51, hi-hat through bars 52-56, ride through bars 57-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-68, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-26, 32-41 and 73-75, and 3 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Ventura Highway -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 68, 92 and 93.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-32 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-53 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-57 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ventura Highway?

129 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 Ventura Highway hard to play on drums?

54 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ventura Highway?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 52, 68, 92 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED