Permanent As Your Errors · train breaks down

171 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 3:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 58-60, 62-64 and 66-68, and 5 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
PERMANENT AS YOUR ERRORS · BARS 58-59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 15, 16, 17, 21, 25 and 24 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 13 sections: 73 keep time, 31 are fills, 45 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART B
CHORUS
PART U
PART AC
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMUBQAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Permanent As Your Errors?

180 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Permanent As Your Errors hard to play on drums?

63 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 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 Permanent As Your Errors?

17 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 15, 16, 17, 21, 25 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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