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Besitos · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 10 OF 70
Groove E -- Part E
49 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART H
PART S
PART AE
PART AL
PART AO
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
12 groovesBEAOAES+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 5
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Besitos on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-11, toms through bars 12-15 and snare through bars 16-25, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-24, 52-59 and 120-126 -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|--x-----x-------|
Besitos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 25, 33, 36, 37, 40, 44 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- H, AR -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-6 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-154 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Besitos?

150 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 Besitos hard to play on drums?

58 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Besitos?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 25, 33, 36, 37, 40, 44 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED