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Orestes · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 14 OF 69
Groove F
46 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Orestes on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
71/100

ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-52, ride through bars 53-69 and silence through bars 70-72, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    38
    1.......2.......3.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
Orestes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- H, J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-68 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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