A Farewell To A Perfect Score · 7 Angels 7 Plagues

239 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 4:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 14 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 186 BPM
A FAREWELL TO A PERFECT SCORE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

33 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 63 more.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

29 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

239 bars across 18 sections: 110 keep time, 69 are fills, 27 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-99.

CHORUS 2
PART R
PART F
PART AE
PART AG
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
13 groovesGAGRCAE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Farewell To A Perfect Score?

186 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A Farewell To A Perfect Score hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 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 A Farewell To A Perfect Score?

33 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED
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