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The Outsider · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 3 OF 59
Fill at bar 18, 34, 46 and 96 (a small one)
33 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART O, OUTRO 2
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART O
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Outsider on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-14, ride through bars 15-22, snare through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34 and toms through bars 35-42, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----x-|
BD |x-x----x-x--|
The Outsider -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 14, 18, 20 and 28 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 -- M, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-23 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-43 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-62 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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