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King For A Day · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 4 OF 69
Groove AM -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
29 / 110 BARS COVERED
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PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART B
PART O
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLYHAQC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play King For A Day on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:03 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
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
82/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-28, hi-hat through bars 29-33 and toms through bars 34-37, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 50-56 and 58-60, and 1 more place -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
King For A Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 31 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- L -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-32 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-58 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is King For A Day?

108 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 King For A Day hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 King For A Day?

17 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 9, 12, 13, 17, 31 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED