The Outsider · A Perfect Circle

107 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 84 BPM, 4:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 51-57 and 85-91 -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
THE OUTSIDER · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 14, 18, 20 and 28 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 12 sections: 50 keep time, 34 are fills, 9 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-67.

PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART Q
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMHUFQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Outsider?

84 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Outsider hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

107 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 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 The Outsider?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 14, 18, 20 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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