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Damn The Man, Save The Empire · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 39 OF 47
Fill at bar 122 (a small one)
89 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART S3
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART B
PART AC
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesACGS3B+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Damn The Man, Save The Empire on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-10, snare through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, silence through bars 27-30 and toms through bars 31-34, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 36 and 38, and 14 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--g-x-----------|
Damn The Man, Save The Empire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 31, 32, 33 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-63 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-79 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 77-104 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 103-119 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Damn The Man, Save The Empire?

146 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 Damn The Man, Save The Empire hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Damn The Man, Save The Empire?

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 31, 32, 33 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED