Veil · Haken

345 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 14:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
345
LENGTH
14:56
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 141-149, 151 and 153-155 -- 4.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
VEIL · BARS 141-142
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 112 times: bars 25, 27, 28, 29, 33, 35 and 106 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

345 bars across 23 sections: 125 keep time, 112 are fills, 19 are stops and 69 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 205-218.

PART I
PART BB
CHORUS
PART S12
PART CN
PART DG
BREAK 2
19 groovesBOIS23S12BB+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Veil?

100 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 Veil hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

345 bars, about 14:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 107 exercises over 36 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Veil?

30 fills to learn, played 112 times: bars 25, 27, 28, 29, 33, 35 and 106 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 345 BARS ANALYSED
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