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Song For Isabelle · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 9 OF 88
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
40 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 5
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Song For Isabelle on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-46, hi-hat through bars 47-49, snare through bars 50-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-55, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |---x--------x--x|---x--------xx--|
BD |x-----x---xx-x--|x-----x---xx---x|
Song For Isabelle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-59 -- 10 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-98 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part Y and Part AB -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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