Pillars · Veil Of Maya

56 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 1:35 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
1:35
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-42 and 44-50, and 1 more place -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 143 BPM
PILLARS · BAR 32
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 13, 16, 17, 18, 24 and 5 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 16-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 3 sections: 38 keep time, 11 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesNGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pillars?

143 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 Pillars hard to play on drums?

53 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 1:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Pillars?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 13, 16, 17, 18, 24 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 56 BARS ANALYSED
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