Hell Above · Pierce The Veil

140 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

140

LENGTH

4:18

DIFFICULTY

82/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-11, hi-hat through bars 12-20, snare through bars 21-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-32 and toms through bars 33-36, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49-50 and 73-75, and 3 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |---o--o--o-----o--o--o--o--o--o--o-----o--o--o--|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|

21 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 5, 6, 24, 28, 32, 35 and 26 more.

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through the Break and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 5-20 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Bars 11-29 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through Part L and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through Part P and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
9. and 11 more sittings after that.