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In Contrast Of A Perfect Portrait · Forgotten Alibi

EXERCISE 13 OF 65
Join Part D to Part F (bars 32-34)
89 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART F
PART D
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 4
19 groovesCGIDAB+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Contrast Of A Perfect Portrait on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-10, snare through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-37, toms through bars 38-51, snare through bars 52-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-67, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
In Contrast Of A Perfect Portrait -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- C, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-41 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-56 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 58-72 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 69-85 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 100-116 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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