Perfect · Smashing Pumpkins

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 29 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 103 BPM
PERFECT · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 31, 43, 61 and 91.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 6 sections: 79 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-23.

PART C
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCDJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Perfect?

103 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?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Perfect?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 25, 31, 43, 61 and 91.

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