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Imperfection · Gravelmouth

Imperfection · Gravelmouth
EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove P -- Chorus 2
0 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT
PART K
CHORUS
PART D
PART K
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
11 groovesPAJKDU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Imperfection on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-90, silence through bars 91-101, hi-hat through bars 102-141, silence through bars 142-149 and hi-hat through bars 150-168.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 28 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x---x-------x-----------x-------|
BD |x-------x-x---------x-------x-x-|
Imperfection -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 38, 81, 149, 157, 173 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- P -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Imperfection?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Imperfection hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 Imperfection?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 38, 81, 149, 157, 173 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED