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Perennial · Jinjer

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove M -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART W
PART Y
PART P
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMWS1YH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Perennial on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-29, snare through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-58, hi-hat through bars 59-66 and ride through bars 67-96, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-41 and 59-66 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34                                               35
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |X-----------------------X-----------------------|X-----------------------X-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----------o-----o-----o-----|------o-----o-----o-----------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
T2 |------------------------------------X-----------|------------X-----------------------------------|
FT |---------------------------------------X--X-----|---------------X--------------------X-----------|
BD |x--------------------x--------------------------|x--------------------x--------------------------|
Perennial -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-34 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Perennial?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Perennial hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Perennial?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED