Veil of Maya (D Standard) · Not Cynic at all

170 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 53-64 and 106-113 -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
VEIL OF MAYA (D STANDARD) · BARS 53-54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 43 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 3-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 17 sections: 89 keep time, 51 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 129-141.

PART J
PART N
PART AB
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART N
9 groovesAKNJSAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Veil of Maya (D Standard)?

130 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 of Maya (D Standard) hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 19 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 (D Standard)?

12 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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