A Match Into Water · Pierce The Veil

169 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-32, 81 and 89, and 7 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 196 BPM
A MATCH INTO WATER · BAR 113
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 37, 38, 40 and 33 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 45-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 15 sections: 92 keep time, 39 are fills, 16 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-24.

PART I
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART T
PART AK
PART A
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLAKTX+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Match Into Water?

196 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 A Match Into Water hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A Match Into Water?

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 37, 38, 40 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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