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.

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 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-|

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

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. Open above.
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.