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Circles · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 15 OF 65
Groove H
65 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART AD
OUTRO
9 groovesCADGASB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Circles on drums

141 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-42, ride through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-62 and ride through bars 63-68, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 35-37, and 7 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 12, 16, 32, 33, 34, 38 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Circles?

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 hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 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?

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 12, 16, 32, 33, 34, 38 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED