Violent Delights · CHVRCHES

156 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 19 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
VIOLENT DELIGHTS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 156.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 156
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 10 sections: 137 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-147.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEHKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Violent Delights?

120 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 Violent Delights hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Violent Delights?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 156.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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