Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps · Cake

63 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:11 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 13-19 and 21-23, and 9 more places -- 61.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
PERHAPS PERHAPS PERHAPS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 2 sections: 62 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-63.

OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps?

115 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 Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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