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Today I Saw The Whole World · Pierce The Veil

EXERCISE 5 OF 65
Fill at bar 5 and 9 (a small one)
50 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Today I Saw The Whole World on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-33, hi-hat through bars 34-39 and snare through bars 40-41, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-------x-x-|
Today I Saw The Whole World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- I, B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-99 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-48 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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