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Bedless · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 18 OF 68
Groove Q -- Part Q
51 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART Q
PART C
PART H
PART L
PART C
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART AX
PART AY
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesUSCLAX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bedless on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, toms through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-31, snare through bars 32-33 and ride through bars 34-38, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 86-93 -- 6.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    86
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |g-g-g-g-X-g-x-g-|
BD |----x-------x---|
Bedless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- AX, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-65 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bedless?

132 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 Bedless hard to play on drums?

56 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Bedless?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED