Gold Medal Ribbon · Pierce The Veil

197 bars at 201 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Punk150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
201 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-75, 77 and 79, and 8 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 201 BPM
GOLD MEDAL RIBBON · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 32, 48, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 31 more.

LOOP · 201 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 201 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 201 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 201 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 16 sections: 96 keep time, 37 are fills, 21 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-141.

COUNT-IN
PART M
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART R
PART AQ
PART AV
14 groovesSS1FAQAV+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gold Medal Ribbon?

201 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 Gold Medal Ribbon hard to play on drums?

60 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 Gold Medal Ribbon?

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 32, 48, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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