Perfect 💯 · One Direction

13 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 0:31 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
13
LENGTH
0:31
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
PERFECT 💯 · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 13
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

13 bars across 2 sections: 3 keep time, 1 is a fill and 9 are silent.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Perfect 💯?

100 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 Perfect 💯 hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

13 bars, about 0:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Perfect 💯?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 13 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other One Direction drum parts

EVERY ONE DIRECTION CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →