The Doomed · A Perfect Circle

165 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-48, 50-56 and 58-64, and 4 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE DOOMED · BARS 42-43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 49, 57, 97 and 7 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 9 sections: 109 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-15.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S5
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMBS5RA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Doomed?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Doomed hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Doomed?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 49, 57, 97 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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