Death Of An Executioner · Pierce The Veil

136 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 124 BPM, 6:27 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
6:27
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-36, 58-60 and 62-68 -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
DEATH OF AN EXECUTIONER · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 45, 69, 77, 85, 90 and 1 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 12 sections: 64 keep time, 7 are fills and 50 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-68.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesS12JLPG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Death Of An Executioner?

124 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Death Of An Executioner hard to play on drums?

45 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 6:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Death Of An Executioner?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 45, 69, 77, 85, 90 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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