Today I Saw The Whole World · Pierce The Veil

126 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Punk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-27 and 40, and 15 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
TODAY I SAW THE WHOLE WORLD · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 18 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 9 sections: 77 keep time, 24 are fills, 15 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-77.

PART B
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIBAFABQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Today I Saw The Whole World?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Today I Saw The Whole World hard to play on drums?

57 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Today I Saw The Whole World?

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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