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Permanent As Your Errors · train breaks down

EXERCISE 1 OF 73
Groove U -- Part U (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 73 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Permanent As Your Errors on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-38, snare through bars 39-49, hi-hat through bars 50-57, snare through bars 58-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-74, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    58               59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|----x-------x--x|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Permanent As Your Errors -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- U -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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