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Stay Away From My Friends (Remaster) · Pierce the Veil

EXERCISE 4 OF 9
Join Chorus to Break (bars 19-21)
52 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stay Away From My Friends (Remaster) on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, silence through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-42, snare through bars 43-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 29-31 and 33-39, and 5 more places -- 80.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--x---x-----|
Stay Away From My Friends (Remaster) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 61.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 19-77 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stay Away From My Friends (Remaster)?

78 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 Stay Away From My Friends (Remaster) hard to play on drums?

47 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?

77 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Stay Away From My Friends (Remaster)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED