Venus · Shocking Blue

99 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-17, 19-21 and 23-29, and 10 more places -- 63.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
VENUS · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 18, 37, 38, 46, 58 and 6 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 58-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 4 sections: 81 keep time, 12 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-79.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Venus?

125 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?

46 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Venus?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 18, 37, 38, 46, 58 and 6 more.

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