Orestes (A Perfect Spiral version) · A Perfect Circle

113 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 75 BPM, 4:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 5 more places -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
ORESTES (A PERFECT SPIRAL VERSION) · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 44 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 14 sections: 46 keep time, 50 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-35.

CHORUS
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART Q
PART AP
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDMQBAJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Orestes (A Perfect Spiral version)?

75 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 (A Perfect Spiral version) hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Orestes (A Perfect Spiral version)?

25 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 24, 26, 28 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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