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The New National Anthem · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 8 OF 58
Fill at bar 74 (a small one)
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0 / 58 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART S
PART S11
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCS11ZSB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The New National Anthem on drums

77 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 2:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, ride through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-39, silence through bars 40-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-54, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 3 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------x-----------|
HH |----o-----------o-------|
SD |--------x-----------x---|
T2 |--------x-----------x---|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x---x-----|
HF |--------x-----------x---|
The New National Anthem -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 14, 18, 22, 26, 34 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-75 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 21-28 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The New National Anthem?

80 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is The New National Anthem hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 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 New National Anthem?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 14, 18, 22, 26, 34 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED