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A Match Into Water · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 7 OF 85
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
57 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
PART C
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 6
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Match Into Water on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-12, toms through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, ride through bars 37-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-44, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    113
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
A Match Into Water -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- K, A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-50 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-51 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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