Pass The Nirvana · Pierce The Veil

115 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 33, and 9 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
PASS THE NIRVANA · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 96 and 97.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 96-97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 13 sections: 67 keep time, 2 are fills, 26 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-28.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBEFHO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pass The Nirvana?

144 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 Pass The Nirvana hard to play on drums?

46 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pass The Nirvana?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 96 and 97.

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