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Venus · Royal Republic

Venus · Royal Republic
EXERCISE 36 OF 48
Join Part C to Chorus 2 (bars 61-63)
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0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
PART C
PART G
PART C
PART I
PART K
PART I
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesOICKT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Venus on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 3-25, snare through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-74, toms through bars 75-78, hi-hat through bars 79-88 and snare through bars 89-90, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7-9 and 11, and 7 more places -- 21.1% 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-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Venus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 18 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-51 -- 6 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-62 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-71 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Venus?

128 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 18 and 10 more.

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