Voulez-Vous · ABBA

138 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-27 and 29-49, and 5 more places -- 93.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
VOULEZ-VOUS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 28, 50, 70, 131 and 132.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 131-132 · LANDS ON BAR 133 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars: 132 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-130.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Voulez-Vous?

126 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 Voulez-Vous hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Voulez-Vous?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 28, 50, 70, 131 and 132.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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