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A Farewell To A Perfect Score · 7 Angels 7 Plagues

EXERCISE 19 OF 120
3-bar fill at bar 14 and 1 more
74 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 120 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 33
LAND · 33
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Farewell To A Perfect Score on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-62, hi-hat through bars 63-64 and snare through bars 65-66, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x-|
A Farewell To A Perfect Score -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 86 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 -- G -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-67 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 13-185 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-39 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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