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So Far So Fake · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 21 OF 55
Join Chorus 2 to Part S (bars 53-55)
64 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART S
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART AC
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
14 groovesHDAS1AC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Far So Fake on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-20, ride through bars 21-27, toms through bars 28-30, hi-hat through bars 31-46 and ride through bars 47-53, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 47-49, and 4 more places -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
So Far So Fake -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 20, 24, 46, 50, 53, 54 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, AC -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-59 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-64 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part S and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-73 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is So Far So Fake?

126 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 So Far So Fake hard to play on drums?

61 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 So Far So Fake?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 20, 24, 46, 50, 53, 54 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED