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Venus · Shocking Blue

EXERCISE 17 OF 21
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 89-91)
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PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Venus on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-80, snare through bars 81-82, kick and crashes through bars 83-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-99.

The beat

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.

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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-----|
Venus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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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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