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Pass The Nirvana · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 3 OF 33
Groove A -- Part A
42 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
PART A
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pass The Nirvana on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, silence through bars 29-32 and snare through bars 33-36, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|
Pass The Nirvana -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B, E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-58 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-110 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-89 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-98 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 89-115 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED