The First Punch · Pierce The Veil

161 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 51-53, and 11 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
THE FIRST PUNCH · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 16, 25, 26, 30, 33, 34 and 30 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 14 sections: 85 keep time, 36 are fills, 20 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
12 groovesKDADAKAP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The First Punch?

190 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 First Punch hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 First Punch?

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 16, 25, 26, 30, 33, 34 and 30 more.

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