In Contrast Of A Perfect Portrait · Forgotten Alibi

186 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 56-59 and 64-67, and 9 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 230 BPM
IN CONTRAST OF A PERFECT PORTRAIT · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 53, 55, 61, 63, 83 and 12 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 29 sections: 103 keep time, 18 are fills, 28 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-108.

PART D
PART G
CHORUS 4
19 groovesCGIDAB+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In Contrast Of A Perfect Portrait?

230 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 In Contrast Of A Perfect Portrait hard to play on drums?

45 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in In Contrast Of A Perfect Portrait?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 53, 55, 61, 63, 83 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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