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Perfect · Simple Plan

EXERCISE 19 OF 48
Fill at bar 20, 42 and 64 (a small one)
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0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO 2
11 groovesHSABO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Perfect on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, silence through bars 25-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-38, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 39-41, and 3 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|x---------------|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|--g-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|x-----x---x---x-|
Perfect -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 20, 23, 42, 45, 64 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-28 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 28-68 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-77 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Perfect?

78 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?

60 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Perfect?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 20, 23, 42, 45, 64 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED