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Perennial Quest · Death

EXERCISE 9 OF 82
Groove F -- Part F
109 / 231 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
PART Q
PART R
CHORUS
PART Z
PART AL
PART AQ
PART Q
PART R
OUTRO
11 groovesWQRZAQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Perennial Quest on drums

231 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
6:38
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-8, ride through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-32, toms through bars 33-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-70, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-52 and 166-185 -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |----x-------|
T2 |x-----------|
FT |x-----------|
BD |x---x-------|
Perennial Quest -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- Q, W -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-57 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part AQ -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Perennial Quest?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Quest hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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 Quest?

17 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 231 BARS ANALYSED