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Orestes (A Perfect Spiral version) · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 18 OF 92
Join Chorus to Part I (bars 11-13)
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Orestes (A Perfect Spiral version) on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
85/100

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 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.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x---x---------x---|
Orestes (A Perfect Spiral version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 9-21 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part I and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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