PIERCE THE VEIL · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Caraphernelia

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-56, 58-64 and 90-96, and 8 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

TEMPO
214 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
57/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 214 BPM
CARAPHERNELIA · BAR 50

It is played on crash, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 57 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 161 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, and nothing else. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 161, 187 and 214 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Caraphernelia use?

A one-bar groove on crash, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 214 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 30.1% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 50-56, 58-64, 90-96 and 98-104, and 7 more places. The time is kept on the hi-hat to start with, and it changes 19 times over the song.

Is the beat in Caraphernelia hard?

26 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED