One Hundred Sleepless Nights · Pierce The Veil

112 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 123 BPM, 5:23 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 32, and 6 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
ONE HUNDRED SLEEPLESS NIGHTS · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 3, 7, 11, 19, 26 and 14 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 12 sections: 32 keep time, 20 are fills, 9 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-60.

PART G
PART K
PART O
PART X
PART O
OUTRO
10 groovesS12OXGA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Hundred Sleepless Nights?

123 BPM, in 6/4, 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 One Hundred Sleepless Nights hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 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 One Hundred Sleepless Nights?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 3, 7, 11, 19, 26 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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