The Jaws of Life · Pierce The Veil

75 bars, 4:10, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 25, and 5 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
THE JAWS OF LIFE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 6, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34 and 15 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 28-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 34-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 10 sections: 31 keep time, 21 are fills, 4 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-42.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBS3YES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Jaws of Life?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Jaws of Life hard to play on drums?

53 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Jaws of Life?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 6, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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