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Venusian 2 · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 20 OF 27
Run G1 · Chorus (bars 25-62)
81 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
6 groovesGBAS4S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Venusian 2 on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 1-26, hi-hat through bars 27-50, toms through bars 51-52, hi-hat through bars 53-61, snare through bars 62-63 and silence through bars 64-66, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 35-41 and 43-45, and 4 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Venusian 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 26, 34, 52, 58, 78 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-89 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Venusian 2?

135 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 Venusian 2 hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 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 Venusian 2?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 26, 34, 52, 58, 78 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED