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Circles-Correct · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 28 OF 69
Join Part L to Chorus 3 (bars 45-47)
80 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, CHORUS 3
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART Z
PART AD
PART Z
CHORUS 5
PART AJ
13 groovesBZDADAJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Circles-Correct on drums

145 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- 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
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-68, snare through bars 69-70, hi-hat through bars 71-74, snare through bars 75-86 and toms through bars 87-111, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 35-37 and 39-41, and 8 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Circles-Correct -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 19, 26, 32, 33, 34, 38 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-35 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-62 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Circles-Correct?

162 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 Circles-Correct 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Circles-Correct?

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 19, 26, 32, 33, 34, 38 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED