Perfume · Lovejoy

102 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 31-33, and 6 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
PERFUME · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 25, 26, 30, 42, 46, 49 and 15 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 11 sections: 66 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-81.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Q
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBTDHM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Perfume?

122 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 Perfume hard to play on drums?

59 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Perfume?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 25, 26, 30, 42, 46, 49 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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