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Veil of Maya (correct) · Not Cynic at all

EXERCISE 13 OF 64
Groove AF
44 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART S2
PART R
PART AH
PART BF
CHORUS
PART CG
PART BC
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBTRS2BCBF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Veil of Maya (correct) on drums

174 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 5:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
98/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28, toms through bars 29-36, ride through bars 37-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-68, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 83-84, 87 and 132, and 2 more places -- 3.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    83
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |-x--x--x-----x--x--x-----x--x--x-----x--x--x----|
SD |-------------x-----------------------x----------|
BD |-x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x-|
Veil of Maya (correct) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- BT -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- BC -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part R -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part AI and Part AH -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part AI -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Veil of Maya (correct)?

117 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Veil of Maya (correct) hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 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 Veil of Maya (correct)?

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED