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Veil of Maya · Not Cynic at all

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove Z -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Veil of Maya on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-51 and snare through bars 52-63, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    78               79
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-xx|
BD |x-xx--xxx-xx--xx|x-xx--xxx-xx----|
Veil of Maya -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- Z, C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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