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Pet · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 35 OF 60
Fill at bar 64 (a small one)
53 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART R
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART S7
PART R
PART W
OUTRO
9 groovesBHRS7K+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pet on drums

87 bars, 4:35, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-10, silence through bars 11-12, ride through bars 13-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25 and ride through bars 26-42, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 18-20, and 5 more places -- 20.8% 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+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x--x----|
Pet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 9, 15, 17, 25, 33 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-26 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-29 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-51 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pet?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Pet hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Pet?

16 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 9, 15, 17, 25, 33 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED