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Venusian Fires · Valiant Hearts By Gorbunov41k

Venusian Fires · Valiant Hearts By Gorbunov41k
EXERCISE 5 OF 84
Groove O -- Part O
39 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART S1
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFHOS1AJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Venusian Fires on drums

202 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-14, toms through bars 15-17, snare through bars 18-34, hi-hat through bars 35-59 and snare through bars 60-66, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-25 and 29, and 14 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Venusian Fires -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 21, 27, 30 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, AJ -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-125 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-127 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-56 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Venusian Fires?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Venusian Fires hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 21, 27, 30 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED