Venus And Mars · Paul McCartney and Wings

93 bars, 4:57, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 16, and 5 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
VENUS AND MARS · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 15, 23, 53, 57, 61, 63 and 2 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 13 sections: 54 keep time, 8 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-36.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART M
PART D
PART O
PART S
PART U
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFDMADU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Venus And Mars?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Venus And Mars hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Venus And Mars?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 15, 23, 53, 57, 61, 63 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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