Orestes · A Perfect Circle

113 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 74 BPM, 4:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 37-43 and 46, and 1 more place -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
ORESTES · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 26, 28, 34 and 40 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 12 sections: 51 keep time, 46 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-11.

PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJHDAGS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Orestes?

74 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Orestes hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Orestes?

19 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 26, 28, 34 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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