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The Cheap Bouquet · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 3 OF 56
Groove B -- Part B
38 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART S1
PART B
PART K
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART AM
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
17 groovesCBPAHAM+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Cheap Bouquet on drums

146 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
48/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, snare through bars 9-24, silence through bars 25-38, snare through bars 39-43 and toms through bars 44-50, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 18 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|
The Cheap Bouquet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 105, 106, 110, 142, 145 and 146.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-40 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-49 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-89 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part AH -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Cheap Bouquet?

169 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 Cheap Bouquet hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cheap Bouquet?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 105, 106, 110, 142, 145 and 146.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED