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Perpetual Loss · Nameless 272

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART P
PART Q
PART AA
PART P
OUTRO
11 groovesDJAFAAP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Perpetual Loss on drums

126 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-27, toms through bars 28-43, snare through bars 44-75, toms through bars 76-81 and snare through bars 82-105, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 7-8 and 10-11, and 5 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----x-----|
SD |x-----------|
BD |x-xxxxx-xxxx|
Perpetual Loss -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 58, 59, 60, 61, 72 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-44 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-78 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part AA -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Perpetual Loss?

155 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Perpetual Loss hard to play on drums?

61 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 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 Perpetual Loss?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 3, 58, 59, 60, 61, 72 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED