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The Boy Who Could Fly · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 1 OF 76
Groove L -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Boy Who Could Fly on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-30, snare through bars 31-50, hi-hat through bars 51-58, toms through bars 59-74, hi-hat through bars 75-88 and kick and crashes through bars 89-107, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35               36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-------x-x-|--------x-x-----|
The Boy Who Could Fly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-77 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-28 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-33 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-54 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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