Venus · Bananarama

77 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 9, and 21 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 126 BPM
VENUS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 6, 18, 38, 50, 51 and 2 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 50-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 5 sections: 63 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-37.

CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Venus?

126 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 Venus hard to play on drums?

50 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 6, 18, 38, 50, 51 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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