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Venus And Mars · Paul McCartney and Wings

Venus And Mars · Paul McCartney and Wings
EXERCISE 23 OF 48
Groove U -- Part U
70 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Venus And Mars on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-37, toms through bars 38-43, snare through bars 44-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-57, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- D, F -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-41 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part S and Part U -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 54-71 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-86 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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