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Death Of An Executioner · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 3 OF 39
Groove P -- Part P
28 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Of An Executioner on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
6:27
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-29, hi-hat through bars 30-54, snare through bars 55-56, hi-hat through bars 57-93 and silence through bars 94-136.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |----x-----x-----x-----x-|
Death Of An Executioner -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- J, L -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 8-25 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-38 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-58 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-89 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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