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Currents Convulsive · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 4 OF 47
Fill at bar 64 (a small one)
7 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART N
PART A
PART N
CHORUS
PART R
PART A
PART N
PART AZ
OUTRO
9 groovesWANAZBD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Currents Convulsive on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-11, ride through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-19 and toms through bars 20-21, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 49 and 59, and 3 more places -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    59
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x---x-|
Currents Convulsive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BD -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-45 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-71 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Currents Convulsive?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Currents Convulsive hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 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 Currents Convulsive?

12 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED