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Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps · Cake

Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps · Cake
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EXERCISE 4 OF 8
Groove D
43 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps on drums

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

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-63.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-x-----x-x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED