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Perfect · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 6 OF 22
Groove F -- Chorus
64 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCDJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Perfect on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 2-91 and kick and crashes through bars 92-93.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--g-g--x---|
BD |x-x---x-x--x----|
HF |x---------------|
Perfect -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-93 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED