Veil of Maya · Not Cynic at all

170 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 78-93 and 127-150 -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
VEIL OF MAYA · BARS 78-79
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 23 and 26 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 15 sections: 118 keep time, 32 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-150.

PART K
PART L
PART S
CHORUS
PART AB
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
10 groovesZLSCAB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Veil of Maya?

132 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 hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 23 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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