Song For Isabelle · Pierce The Veil

152 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Punk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23 -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SONG FOR ISABELLE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 36, 44, 46 and 25 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 13 sections: 95 keep time, 31 are fills, 8 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-94.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
PART H
PART K
PART S6
PART Y
PART AD
PART AJ
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAKADHY+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song For Isabelle?

130 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 Song For Isabelle hard to play on drums?

64 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Song For Isabelle?

25 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 36, 44, 46 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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