Perfection Through Silence · Finch

89 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 28-34, and 4 more places -- 52.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
PERFECTION THROUGH SILENCE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 22, 26, 39, 43, 44, 80 and 2 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 11 sections: 68 keep time, 8 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBEGJL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Perfection Through Silence?

116 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 Perfection Through Silence hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 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 Perfection Through Silence?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 22, 26, 39, 43, 44, 80 and 2 more.

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