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Floral & Fading · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART F
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCNFABX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Floral & Fading on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bars 3-14, snare through bars 15-22, toms through bars 23-30, ride through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-57 and snare through bars 58-60, and 5 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 -- 20.2% 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
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
Floral & Fading -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 14, 30, 32, 40, 44 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-72 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-80 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Floral & Fading?

100 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 Floral & Fading hard to play on drums?

47 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Floral & Fading?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 14, 30, 32, 40, 44 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED