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Southern Constellations/The Boy Who Could Fly · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 18 OF 81
Join Part G to Part I (bars 29-31)
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0 / 81 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART I
PART B
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART P
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AC
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
19 groovesLBIACAH+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Southern Constellations/The Boy Who Could Fly on drums

228 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 7:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
7:56
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-22, ride through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-62, toms through bars 63-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-92, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-45, 47-52 and 95-101, and 4 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    39               40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-------x-x-|--------x-x-----|
Southern Constellations/The Boy Who Could Fly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 14, 21, 22, 30, 35 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- L, B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-32 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-42 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Southern Constellations/The Boy Who Could Fly?

115 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 Southern Constellations/The Boy Who Could Fly hard to play on drums?

57 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 7:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Southern Constellations/The Boy Who Could Fly?

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 14, 21, 22, 30, 35 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED