Venus · Theatre Of Tragedy

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 9 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 95 BPM
VENUS · BARS 49-50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 96.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 9 sections: 106 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-128.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGCDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Venus?

95 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?

42 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?

129 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 48 and 96.

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