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Disasterology · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 4 OF 71
Groove W -- Part W
38 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART W
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART W
CHORUS 4
PART A
PART AL
OUTRO 2
15 groovesCAAUNW+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disasterology on drums

136 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 2-14, hi-hat through bars 15-31, silence through bars 32-34, snare through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-38 and snare through bars 39-40, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-13 and 23-29, and 5 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 14, 22, 30, 38, 42, 44 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 16-23 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-31 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-77 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Disasterology?

160 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 Disasterology hard to play on drums?

61 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Disasterology?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 14, 22, 30, 38, 42, 44 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED