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The Sky Under The Sea · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 1 OF 88
Groove L -- Chorus
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PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AE
CHORUS 3
13 groovesLBAECAA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Sky Under The Sea on drums

168 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 2-18, toms through bars 19-27, hi-hat through bars 28-33, snare through bars 34-40, toms through bars 41-45 and snare through bars 46-47, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 58-59 and 62-68, and 4 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
The Sky Under The Sea -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 33 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-53 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AA -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Sky Under The Sea?

170 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 Sky Under The Sea hard to play on drums?

60 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 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 Sky Under The Sea?

23 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 33 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED