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21 pilots cover · Means to an End

21 pilots cover · Means to an End
EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove AD -- Part AD
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0 / 67 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AD
PART A
PART O
PART S
PART X
PART AD
PART AN
PART AS
OUTRO
BREAK 5
17 groovesAUAADANS17+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 21 pilots cover on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 5:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
64/100

ride through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-13, snare through bars 14-31, ride through bars 32-39, hi-hat through bars 40-53 and ride through bars 54-55, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50, 52-53 and 56-57, and 3 more places -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
21 pilots cover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- AD -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF, AN -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part O -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and Part AD -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 21 pilots cover?

114 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 21 pilots cover hard to play on drums?

64 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 21 pilots cover?

11 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED