Tangled In The Great Escape · Pierce The Veil

161 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 4:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 53-55, and 2 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
TANGLED IN THE GREAT ESCAPE · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 27, 28 and 44 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 16 sections: 67 keep time, 50 are fills, 13 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-134.

CHORUS
PART G
PART A
PART AA
PART AH
PART A
PART AS
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBANAHG+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tangled In The Great Escape?

105 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Tangled In The Great Escape hard to play on drums?

62 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Tangled In The Great Escape?

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 27, 28 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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