The Boy Who Could Fly · Pierce The Veil

224 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-41, 43-48 and 91-97, and 7 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 210 BPM
THE BOY WHO COULD FLY · BARS 35-36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 10, 17, 18, 26, 34 and 27 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 18 sections: 119 keep time, 33 are fills, 49 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-141.

PART A
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART AG
OUTRO
13 groovesLAWPI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Boy Who Could Fly?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Boy Who Could Fly hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 The Boy Who Could Fly?

14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 10, 17, 18, 26, 34 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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