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Tangled In The Great Escape · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 1 OF 85
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 5
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tangled In The Great Escape on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-47, toms through bars 48-49 and snare through bars 50-52, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9            10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----x-----|x-----x-x-x-|
RD |--x-x---x-x-|--x-x-------|
SD |---x-----x--|---x-xx-x-xx|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Tangled In The Great Escape -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-37 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-45 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-53 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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.

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