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Perdido · Warcry

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBIAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Perdido on drums

216 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-142, toms through bars 143-144, hi-hat through bars 145-200 and snare through bars 201-216.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 15-18 and 20-21, and 22 more places -- 62.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Perdido -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 30, 46, 71, 87, 112 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-205 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Perdido?

170 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 Perdido hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Perdido?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 30, 46, 71, 87, 112 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED